Nehemiah 8:6

American Standard Version (1901)

and Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.

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  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.
  • Exod 4:31 : 31 And the people believed: and when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
  • Neh 5:13 : 13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.
  • Lam 3:41 : 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
  • 2 Chr 20:18 : 18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Jehovah, worshipping Jehovah.
  • Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.
  • Ps 141:2 : 2 Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
  • Jer 28:6 : 6 even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Jehovah do so; Jehovah perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Jehovah's house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon unto this place.
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • Rev 7:11 : 11 And all the angels were standing round about the throne, and [about] the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
  • 2 Chr 29:30 : 30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises unto Jehovah with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
  • Gen 14:22 : 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
  • Gen 24:26 : 26 And the man bowed his head, and worshipped Jehovah.
  • Exod 12:27 : 27 that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
  • Lev 9:24 : 24 And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
  • 1 Chr 29:20 : 20 And David said to all the assembly, Now bless Jehovah your God. And all the assembly blessed Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped Jehovah, and the king.
  • 2 Chr 6:4 : 4 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hands fulfilled it, saying,
  • Matt 6:13 : 13 And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one] .
  • Matt 26:39 : 39 And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
  • 1 Cor 14:16 : 16 Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?
  • Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ:
  • Ps 28:2 : 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
  • Ps 41:13 : 13 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
  • Ps 63:4 : 4 So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
  • Ps 72:18-19 : 18 Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, Who only doeth wondrous things: 19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever; And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and Amen.

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