Nehemiah 9:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

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  • Deut 2:7 : 7 For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.
  • Deut 8:4 : 4 Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.
  • Deut 29:5 : 5 For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.
  • Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
  • Amos 5:25 : 25 Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
  • Acts 13:18 : 18 And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
  • Exod 16:35 : 35 And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.
  • Num 14:33-34 : 33 And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land. 34 And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.

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  • Deut 8:2-4
    3 verses
    87%

    2And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

    3And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

    4Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.

  • Deut 29:5-6
    2 verses
    86%

    5For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.

    6You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.

  • Neh 9:19-20
    2 verses
    80%

    19Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.

    20And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it.

  • Acts 13:18
    79%

    18And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

  • Deut 2:7
    79%

    7For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

  • Neh 9:15
    76%

    15And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

  • Deut 1:31
    74%

    31And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.

  • Josh 5:6
    74%

    6For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 16:35
    73%

    35And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.

  • Deut 8:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

    16Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;

  • Heb 3:9
    73%

    9When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

  • Amos 5:25
    73%

    25Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

  • Neh 9:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

    23And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

  • Josh 9:5
    72%

    5And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.

  • Deut 11:5
    72%

    5And what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place;

  • Amos 2:10
    72%

    10And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

  • Acts 7:36
    72%

    36This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

  • Neh 9:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

    12And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

  • Heb 3:17
    72%

    17And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

  • Num 14:33-34
    2 verses
    72%

    33And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

    34And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.

  • Ps 78:40
    72%

    40How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

  • Deut 2:14
    72%

    14Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.

  • Neh 9:30
    71%

    30Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • Isa 48:21
    71%

    21They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • Jer 2:6
    71%

    6And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

  • Num 32:13
    71%

    13Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

  • Ps 95:10
    71%

    10For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

  • Deut 9:9
    70%

    9When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.

  • Josh 24:7
    70%

    7And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.

  • Deut 1:33
    70%

    33Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.

  • Josh 9:13
    70%

    13And these wine-skins were new when we put the wine in them, and now they are cracked as you see; and our clothing and our shoes have become old because of our very long journey here.

  • Num 32:11
    70%

    11Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

  • Neh 9:17
    69%

    17And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

  • Ps 106:14
    69%

    14They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

  • Josh 14:10
    69%

    10And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.

  • Ezek 20:17
    69%

    17But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.

  • Hos 13:5
    69%

    5I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.

  • Num 9:22
    69%

    22Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days or a month or a year without moving, the children of Israel went on waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken up they went forward on their journey.

  • Num 9:19
    69%

    19When the cloud was resting on the House for a long time the children of Israel, waiting for the order of the Lord, did not go on.

  • Deut 1:46
    69%

    46So you were kept waiting in Kadesh for a long time.

  • Deut 1:19
    68%

    19Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.