Nehemiah 9:27

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Nehemiah 9:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

26 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

27 So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

28 But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.

29 You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:17

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’

Deuteronomy 31:18

And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

Judges 2:14

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.

Judges 2:15

Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.

Judges 3:8

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.

Judges 3:9

But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

Judges 3:10

The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him.

Judges 3:11

So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

Judges 3:12

Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. So He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

Judges 3:13

After enlisting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join forces with him, Eglon attacked and defeated Israel, taking possession of the City of Palms.

Judges 3:14

The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

Judges 3:15

And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

Judges 3:16

Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak

Judges 3:17

and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an obese man.

Judges 3:18

After Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he ushered out those who had carried it.

Judges 3:19

But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.

Judges 3:20

Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

Judges 3:21

And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.

Judges 3:22

Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglon’s bowels emptied.

Judges 3:23

Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.

Judges 3:24

After Ehud was gone, Eglon’s servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.

Judges 3:25

So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.

Judges 3:26

Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.

Judges 3:27

On arriving in Seirah, he blew the ram’s horn throughout the hill country of Ephraim. The Israelites came down with him from the hills, and he became their leader.

Judges 3:28

“Follow me,” he told them, “for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.

Judges 3:29

At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men. Not one of them escaped.

Judges 3:30

So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

2 Chronicles 36:17

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

Psalms 106:41

He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

Psalms 106:42

Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.

Daniel 9:10

and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

Daniel 9:11

All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

Daniel 9:12

You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:13

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.

Daniel 9:14

Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.

Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

Deuteronomy 4:31

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

Judges 6:6

Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.

Judges 6:7

Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,

Judges 6:8

He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Judges 6:9

I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.

Judges 6:10

And I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”

Judges 10:15

“We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”

Judges 10:16

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

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.

Judges 2:18

Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.

1 Samuel 12:10

Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’

1 Samuel 12:11

So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.

2 Kings 13:5

So the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel lived in their own homes as they had before.

2 Kings 14:27

and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

Obadiah 1:21

The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.