Nehemiah 13:2
because they have not come before the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and hire against them Balaam to revile them, and our God turns the reviling into a blessing.
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In Context
3And it comes to pass, at their hearing the Law, that they separate all the mixed people from Israel.
Cross References
Numbers 22:3and Moab is exceedingly afraid of the presence of the people, for it [is] numerous; and Moab is distressed by the presence of the sons of Israel,
Numbers 23:8How do I pierce [when] God has not pierced? And how am I indignant [when] YHWH has not been indignant?
Numbers 24:5How good have been your tents, O Jacob, || Your dwelling places, O Israel;
Deuteronomy 23:5and your God YHWH has not been willing to listen to Balaam, and your God YHWH turns the reviling to a blessing for you, because your God YHWH has loved you;
Psalms 109:28They revile, and You bless, || They have risen, and are ashamed, || And Your servant rejoices.
Matthew 25:40And the King answering, will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did [it] to one of these My brothers—the least—you did [it] to Me.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 13:2-10
The People's Attention to Their Duty. ( b. c. 444.) 1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; 2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing. 3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all… Read the whole commentary →