Nehemiah 9:21

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For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

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  • Deut 2:7 : 7 The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.
  • Deut 8:4 : 4 Your clothing did not wear out, nor did your feet swell during these forty years.
  • Deut 29:5 : 5 You did not eat bread or drink wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
  • Ps 34:10 : 10 Fear the Lord, you His holy ones, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
  • Amos 5:25 : 25 Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
  • Acts 13:18 : 18 For about forty years He endured their behavior in the wilderness.
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 Remember the entire journey the Lord your God has led you on these forty years in the wilderness, to humble and test you in order to know what is in your heart—whether or not you would keep His commandments.
  • Exod 16:35 : 35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
  • Num 14:33-34 : 33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the consequences of your unfaithfulness, until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 For forty days you explored the land; now, for each day, you will bear your guilt for a year—forty years—and you will know my opposition.

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  • Deut 8:2-4
    3 verses
    87%

    2Remember the entire journey the Lord your God has led you on these forty years in the wilderness, to humble and test you in order to know what is in your heart—whether or not you would keep His commandments.

    3He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, then fed you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers knew, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

    4Your clothing did not wear out, nor did your feet swell during these forty years.

  • Deut 29:5-6
    2 verses
    86%

    5You did not eat bread or drink wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

    6When you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.

  • Neh 9:19-20
    2 verses
    80%

    19You, in Your great mercy, did not abandon them in the wilderness. During the day, the pillar of cloud did not depart to guide them on their way, nor did the pillar of fire by night to give them light for the path they should take.

    20You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold manna from their mouths, and You provided water for their thirst.

  • Acts 13:18
    79%

    18For about forty years He endured their behavior in the wilderness.

  • Deut 2:7
    79%

    7The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.

  • Neh 9:15
    76%

    15You provided bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water out of a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and take possession of the land You had sworn to give them.

  • Deut 1:31
    74%

    31And in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way you went, until you came to this place.

  • Josh 5:6
    74%

    6The Israelites journeyed in the wilderness for forty years until all the warriors who had come out of Egypt died, because they did not obey the LORD. The LORD swore that He would not show them the land He had promised to their ancestors—a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 16:35
    73%

    35The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

  • Deut 8:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15He led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, filled with venomous snakes, scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water. He brought water for you out of a rock of flint.

    16He fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, to humble and test you so that He might do good for you in the end.

  • Heb 3:9
    73%

    9where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works.

  • Amos 5:25
    73%

    25Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

  • Neh 9:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22You gave them kingdoms and nations, dividing them into regions. They took possession of the land of Sihon, the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

    23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had promised their ancestors they would enter and take possession of.

  • Josh 9:5
    72%

    5They wore patched and worn-out sandals and clothes, and all the bread they carried as provisions was dry and crumbled.

  • Deut 11:5
    72%

    5And what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place.

  • Amos 2:10
    72%

    10'It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorites.'

  • Acts 7:36
    72%

    36This is the one who led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • Neh 9:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11You divided the sea before them, and they passed through it on dry ground. But You cast their pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.

    12By day, You led them with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light for the path they should follow.

  • Heb 3:17
    72%

    17And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Num 14:33-34
    2 verses
    72%

    33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the consequences of your unfaithfulness, until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.

    34For forty days you explored the land; now, for each day, you will bear your guilt for a year—forty years—and you will know my opposition.

  • Ps 78:40
    72%

    40How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland!

  • Deut 2:14
    72%

    14The time we traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

  • Neh 9:30
    71%

    30For many years, You were patient with them. You warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets, yet they would not listen. So You gave them into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • Isa 48:21
    71%

    21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow from the rock for them; He split open the rock, and water gushed out.

  • Jer 2:6
    71%

    6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and deep darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

  • Num 32:13
    71%

    13The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the entire generation that had done evil in His sight was gone.

  • Ps 95:10
    71%

    10For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know My ways.'

  • Deut 9:9
    70%

    9When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.

  • Josh 24:7
    70%

    7Your ancestors cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians. He brought the sea over them and covered them. Your eyes witnessed what I did to Egypt. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

  • Deut 1:33
    70%

    33who went before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp, by night in the fire to show you the way you should go, and by day in the cloud.

  • Josh 9:13
    70%

    13These wineskins were new when we filled them, but see how they have burst. Our clothes and sandals are worn out from the very long journey.”

  • Num 32:11
    70%

    11'None of the men who came up from Egypt, twenty years old and older, will see the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not fully followed Me—

  • Neh 9:17
    69%

    17They refused to listen and did not remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, and You did not abandon them.

  • Ps 106:14
    69%

    14In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland.

  • Josh 14:10
    69%

    10Now here I am, the LORD has kept me alive, as He promised, these forty-five years since the time the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel journeyed in the wilderness. And now, here I am today, eighty-five years old.

  • Ezek 20:17
    69%

    17Yet my eye spared them from destruction, and I did not destroy them completely in the wilderness.

  • Hos 13:5
    69%

    5I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.

  • Num 9:22
    69%

    22Whether it remained for two days, a month, or longer, as long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, the people of Israel remained camped and did not set out. But when it lifted, they set out.

  • Num 9:19
    69%

    19Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the people of Israel kept the LORD’s command and did not set out.

  • Deut 1:46
    69%

    46So you stayed in Kadesh for many days, as long as you remained there.

  • Deut 1:19
    68%

    19Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.