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We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord;

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:38 ESV

"Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:33 ESV

Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.

over 9 years ago

"Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:31 ESV

Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:29 ESV

And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:26 ESV

"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:23 ESV

You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:19 ESV

you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:16 ESV

"But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:8 ESV

You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:6 ESV

"You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:3 ESV

And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 8:18 ESV

And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 8:17 ESV

And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 8:10 ESV

Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength."

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 7:73 ESV

So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 5:12 ESV

Then they said, "We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say." And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 5:7 ESV

I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, "You are exacting interest, each from his brother." And I held a great assembly against them

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Nehemiah 4:20 ESV

In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us."

over 9 years ago

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