Nehemiah 9:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it to his descendants. And You have fulfilled Your words, for You are righteous;

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You found his heart faithful before You, and You made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to his descendants. And You have kept Your promise because You are righteous.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    and foundest{H4672} his heart{H3824} faithful{H539} before{H6440} thee, and madest{H3772} a covenant{H1285} with him to give{H5414} the land{H776} of the Canaanite,{H3669} the Hittite,{H2850} the Amorite,{H567} and the Perizzite,{H6522} and the Jebusite,{H2983} and the Girgashite,{H1622} to give{H5414} it unto his seed,{H2233} and hast performed{H6965} thy words;{H1697} for thou art righteous.{H6662}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And foundest{H4672}{(H8804)} his heart{H3824} faithful{H539}{(H8737)} before{H6440} thee, and madest{H3772}{(H8800)} a covenant{H1285} with him to give{H5414}{(H8800)} the land{H776} of the Canaanites{H3669}, the Hittites{H2850}, the Amorites{H567}, and the Perizzites{H6522}, and the Jebusites{H2983}, and the Girgashites{H1622}, to give{H5414}{(H8800)} it, I say, to his seed{H2233}, and hast performed{H6965}{(H8686)} thy words{H1697}; for thou art righteous{H6662}:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and founde his hert faithfull before the, and madest a couenaut with him, to geue vnto his sede the londe of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Pheresites, Iebusites, and Girgosites, and hast made good thy wordes: for thou art righteous.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a couenant with him, to giue vnto his seede the lande of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and Perizzites, and Iebusites, and Girgashites, and hast performed thy wordes, because thou art iust.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And foundest his heart faithfull before thee, & madest a couenaunt with him, to geue vnto his seede the lande of the Chanaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Iebusites, and Gergesites, and hast made good thy wordes: for thou art righteous,

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give [it, I say], to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou [art] righteous:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and didst find his heart stedfast before Thee, so as to make with him the covenant, to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give `it' to his seed. `And Thou dost establish Thy words, for Thou `art' righteous,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it unto his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it unto his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    When you perceived that his heart was faithful toward you, you established a covenant with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:6 : 6 And he believed in the LORD; and He counted it to him for righteousness.
  • Gen 15:18-21 : 18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Josh 21:43-45 : 43 And the LORD gave to Israel all the land which He had sworn to give their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt in it. 44 And the LORD gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers: and none of all their enemies stood before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. 45 Nothing failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
  • Josh 23:14 : 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all have come to pass for you, and not one thing has failed thereof.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us:
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.
  • Gen 12:1-3 : 1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get yourself out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you: 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing: 3 And I will bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
  • Heb 11:17 : 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
  • Jas 2:21-23 : 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see how faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. And he was called the Friend of God.
  • 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • Ps 92:14-15 : 14 They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and flourishing, 15 To show that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
  • Ps 105:8-9 : 8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. 9 The covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
  • Ps 105:43-44 : 43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness: 44 And gave them the lands of the nations: and they inherited the labor of the people;
  • Luke 1:72-73 : 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, 73 The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
  • Acts 13:22 : 22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; to whom he also gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfill all my will.
  • 1 Tim 1:12-13 : 12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; 13 Although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began;
  • Gen 22:12 : 12 And he said, Do not lay your hand upon the boy, nor do anything to him: for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me.
  • Gen 22:16-18 : 16 And said, By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son: 17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies; 18 And in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  • Exod 3:17 : 17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
  • Deut 7:1 : 1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you are going to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
  • Deut 7:8-9 : 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Deut 26:3 : 3 And you shall go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I declare this day to the LORD my God, that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.
  • Josh 9:1 : 1 And it happened, when all the kings on this side of the Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and along all the coasts of the great sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;
  • Josh 11:3 : 3 And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
  • Josh 11:23 : 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 7 You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and gave him the name Abraham;

  • 5 It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • 9 And You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea;

  • 7 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?

  • Ps 105:8-9
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    8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

    9 The covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

  • 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.

  • Neh 9:22-24
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    22 Moreover, You gave them kingdoms and nations, and divided them into districts: So they possessed the land of Sihon, the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

    23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land which You had promised to their forefathers they would enter and possess.

    24 So the children entered and possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they wished.

  • 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

  • 24 Who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him: you also spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

  • 4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, where they were strangers.

  • 15 You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promised them that they would go in to possess the land which You had sworn to give them.

  • Gen 17:8-9
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    8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

    9 And God said to Abraham, You shall keep my covenant therefore, you and your descendants after you in their generations.

  • 18 And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,

  • 53 For you separated them from among all the people of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by the hand of Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.

  • Deut 4:37-38
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    37 And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

    38 To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

  • 8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

  • 17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • 13 That he may establish you today as a people for himself, and that he may be to you a God, as he has said to you, and as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

  • 3 Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;

  • 1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you are going to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

  • 7 And He said to him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.

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    10 And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you."

    11 Observe what I command you this day: behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • 11 Saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

  • 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.

  • 20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

  • 15 You who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him; and spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

  • 9 And I was with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies out of your sight, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

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

  • 8 And I have been with you wherever you have walked, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

  • 5 And the children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

  • 15 Only the LORD delighted in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

  • 2 And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  • 7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.

  • 12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.

  • 8 And I will bring you into the land, about which I swore to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am the LORD.

  • 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  • 6 O seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen.

  • 21 For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all these great things, to make your servant know them.

  • 18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: