Nehemiah 9:17

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Nehemiah 9:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.

16 But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.

17 They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

18 Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

19 You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

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Numbers 14:3

Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

Numbers 14:4

So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

Numbers 14:11

And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

Numbers 14:41

But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!

Numbers 16:14

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

Psalms 106:24

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

Psalms 106:25

They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

Proverbs 1:24

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

Hebrews 12:25

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

Psalms 78:11

They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

Psalms 78:42

They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalms 78:43

when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Psalms 86:5

For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.

Psalms 86:15

But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

Psalms 106:7

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

Psalms 106:13

Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

Matthew 16:9

Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Matthew 16:10

Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Matthew 16:11

How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

2 Peter 1:12

Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.

2 Peter 1:13

I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,

2 Peter 1:14

because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

2 Peter 1:15

And I will make every effort to ensure that after my departure, you will be able to recall these things at all times.

Acts 7:39

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

Numbers 14:18

‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

Numbers 14:19

Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”

Psalms 130:4

But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Micah 7:19

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Exodus 34:6

Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

Exodus 34:7

maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

Psalms 78:38

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalms 103:8

The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

Psalms 103:9

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

Psalms 103:10

He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

Psalms 103:11

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

Psalms 103:12

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Psalms 103:13

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

Psalms 103:14

For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

Psalms 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Psalms 103:16

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

Psalms 103:17

But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

Psalms 103:18

to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

Psalms 145:8

The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

Psalms 145:9

The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Isaiah 55:8

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 55:9

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Joel 2:13

So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

Romans 9:15

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

Ephesians 1:7

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

1 Kings 6:13

And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”

1 Kings 8:57

May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us nor forsake us.

Psalms 106:43

Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

Psalms 106:44

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

Psalms 106:45

And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

Psalms 106:46

He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.