Nehemiah 9:38

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Neh 10:1 : 1 Now those who sealed were, Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,
  • Neh 10:29 : 29 They 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;
  • 2 Kgs 23:3 : 3 And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood for the covenant.
  • 2 Chr 23:16 : 16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
  • 2 Chr 29:10 : 10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.
  • 2 Chr 34:31 : 31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
  • Ezra 10:3 : 3 Therefore, 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.
  • 2 Chr 15:12-13 : 12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; 13 That whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

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  • Neh 9:36-37
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    36Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, here we are, servants in it.

    37And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us because of our sins; also, they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Neh 10:29
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    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 9:32-34
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    32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy, do not let all the hardship seem little before You that has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our forefathers, and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

    33However, You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have done right, but we have acted wickedly.

    34Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our forefathers kept Your law, nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, which You testified against them.

  • Dan 9:11-15
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    11Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even by departing, that they might not obey Your voice; therefore, the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.

    12And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.

    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

    15And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

  • Ezra 9:13-15
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    13And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this;

    14Should we again break Your commandments and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant or escaping?

    15O LORD God of Israel, You are righteous, for we remain yet as escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before You in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before You because of this.

  • 2 Chr 29:9-10
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    9For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

    10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.

  • Ezra 9:7-10
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    7Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

    8And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

    9For we were bondservants, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, to repair its desolations, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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

  • Ps 44:17
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    17All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

  • Deut 29:9
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    9Therefore, keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

  • Dan 9:8-9
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    8O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

    9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him;

  • Josh 9:19-20
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    19But all the leaders said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

    20This we will do to them; we will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath we swore to them.

  • Neh 5:12
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    12Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say. Then I called the priests and required an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.

  • 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.

  • Ezra 4:14
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    14Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not proper for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore we have sent and certified the king;

  • Dan 9:5-6
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    5We have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments:

    6Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Neh 1:7
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    7We have dealt very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which You commanded Your servant Moses.

  • Neh 10:32
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    32Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

  • Jer 44:17
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    17But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

  • Neh 13:29
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    29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

  • Josh 9:11
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    11Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make a treaty with us.

  • 2 Chr 34:32
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    32And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

  • Ezra 10:5
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    5Then Ezra arose and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear that they would do according to this word. And they swore.

  • 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:3
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    3And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood for the covenant.

  • Jer 14:20
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    20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

  • Deut 29:14
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    14I make this covenant and this oath not only with you;

  • Dan 6:9
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    9Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

  • Isa 8:16
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    16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

  • Neh 4:9
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    9Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

  • Esth 8:8
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    8Write also for the Jews as you please, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's ring cannot be reversed by any man.

  • Neh 5:4-5
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    4There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

  • Jer 34:19
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    19The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;