Nehemiah 1:8
Please remember what you told Moses when you said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
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Deuteronomy 4:25After you have been living in the country for a long time and have had children and grandchildren, you may then spoil the relationship you have with the Lord and make an idol in some form. The Lord your God sees this as evil and it makes him angry.
Deuteronomy 28:64The Lord will scatter you among the nations all over the earth, and there you will worship other gods, gods made of wood and stone, which you and your fathers had never heard of.
1 Kings 9:6But if you or your descendants turn away and do not keep the laws and the commandments I have given you, and if you go and serve and worship other gods,
Ezekiel 5:10In your city parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. I'm going to punish you and scatter in every direction those who are left.
Luke 1:72He was merciful to our fathers, remembering his holy agreement—
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 1:6-11
Nehemiah's Prayer. ( b. c. 445.) 5 And said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: 6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned. 7 We… Read the whole commentary →