Nehemiah 13:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

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  • Neh 6:14 : 14 My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, who would have made me afraid.
  • Ps 59:5-9 : 5 Therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen; be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. 6 They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go around the city. 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears? 8 But you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the heathen in derision. 9 Because of His strength I will wait upon you, for God is my defense. 10 The God of my mercy shall come to meet me; God shall let me see my desire upon my enemies. 11 Do not slay them, lest my people forget; scatter them by your power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield. 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak. 13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may be no more; and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.
  • Mal 2:4-8 : 4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, says the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me and was afraid before my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found on his lips; he walked with me in peace and equity and turned many away from iniquity. 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. 8 But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Mal 2:10-12 : 10 Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12 The LORD will cut off the man who does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering to the LORD of hosts.
  • 2 Tim 4:14 : 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him according to his works.
  • Lev 21:1-7 : 1 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, None shall defile himself for the dead among his people: 2 But for his relative who is near to him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister, a virgin who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. 4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. 5 They shall not make baldness upon their heads, nor shave off the corner of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh. 6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.
  • Num 16:9-9 : 9 Does it seem like a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? 10 And He has brought you near to Him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you: and do you seek the priesthood also?
  • Num 25:12-13 : 12 Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace: 13 And he shall have it, and his descendants after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I did indeed say that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now the LORD says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

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  • Neh 13:30-31
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    30Thus I cleansed them of everything foreign, and I assigned duties to the priests and the Levites, each to his service,

    31and for the offering of wood at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

  • Neh 13:21-23
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    21Then I warned them, and said to them, Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath.

    22And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and come and guard the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy.

    23In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;

  • Neh 13:13-14
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    13And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites; and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, for they were considered trustworthy, and their task was to distribute to their brethren.

    14Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for its services.

  • Neh 13:27-28
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    27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?

    28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; therefore, I drove him from me.

  • 2 Chr 29:5-6
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    5And said to them, Hear me, Levites, sanctify yourselves now and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness from the holy place.

    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Neh 6:14
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    14My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, who would have made me afraid.

  • Ezra 2:62
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    62These sought their record among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore, as polluted, they were put from the priesthood.

  • 2 Chr 13:9-10
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    9Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

    10But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests who minister to the LORD are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.

  • Neh 13:4-5
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    4Before this, Eliashib the priest, who was in charge of the chambers of the house of our God, was allied with Tobiah;

    5and he had prepared for him a large room, where previously they had stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil, which were commanded to be given to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers, as well as the offerings for the priests.

  • Neh 12:22-23
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    22The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers, as well as the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.

    23The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, up until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

  • 2 Chr 29:15-16
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    15And they gathered their brethren, sanctified themselves, and came according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

    16And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

  • Neh 13:7
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    7and I came to Jerusalem and discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by preparing a room for him in the courts of the house of God.

  • Neh 12:30
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    30The priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

  • Neh 7:64
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    64These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore they were, as polluted, expelled from the priesthood.

  • Neh 10:27-29
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    27Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

    28And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinims, and all those who had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone having knowledge and understanding;

    29They joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes;

  • Neh 13:9-11
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    9Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the rooms; and I brought back into them the vessels of the house of God, along with the grain offerings and the frankincense.

    10I also realized that the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, so the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.

    11So I contended with the rulers, and said, Why has the house of God been forsaken? And I gathered them together and placed them in their stations.

  • Ezra 9:1-2
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    1Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

    2For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has mingled with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

  • Ezek 22:26
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    26Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
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    14Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed greatly after all the abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
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    34But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore, their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was done, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • Ezra 8:15
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    15And I gathered them together by the river that flows to Ahava; and there we stayed in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

  • Neh 12:26
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    26These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

  • Lam 4:16
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    16The anger of the LORD has scattered them; he will no longer regard them; they showed no respect to the priests, nor favored the elders.

  • Neh 5:19
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    19Remember me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

  • Neh 9:38
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    38And because of all this, we make a sure covenant and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests seal it.

  • Mal 2:1
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    1And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.

  • Ezra 10:3
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    3Therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

  • Neh 4:5
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    5Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

  • Lam 5:1
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    1Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace.

  • Ezra 7:24
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    24Also we certify you, that concerning any of the priests and Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.

  • Ezek 23:38
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    38Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

  • Ezra 8:24
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    24Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

  • Ezra 10:18
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    18Among the sons of the priests who had taken foreign wives were found among the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

  • 2 Chr 11:14
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    14For the Levites left their suburbs and possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from executing the priest's office to the LORD.

  • Ezra 9:10
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    10And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments,