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Nehemiah 9

Israel gathers with fasting, separation from unlawful associations, confession, and worship. A long prayer retells God’s dealings from creation and Abraham through the Exodus, wilderness, conquest, judges, monarchy, exile, and the present Persian period. The contrast is consistent: God has been faithful and merciful, while Israel has repeatedly rebelled.

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Verses 1–5Israel separates from strangers, confesses sin, reads the law, and worships Verses 6–15The prayer praises God for creation, Abraham, the Exodus, Sinai, and provision Verses 16–21Israel’s fathers rebel in the wilderness, but God remains merciful and sustains them Verses 22–25God gives Israel kingdoms, children, cities, and a rich land Verses 26–31Israel repeatedly rebels, suffers, cries out, and receives mercy and deliverance Verses 32–38The people confess that God is just, admit their present distress, and make a covenant

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1Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month…2And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers,…3And they stood up in their place, and read in…4Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua,…5Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah,…6Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven,…7Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram,…8And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a…9And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,…10And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all…11And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that…12Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy…13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with…14And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst…15And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and…16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their…17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders…18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and…19Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in…20Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and…21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness,…22Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide…23Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven,…24So the children went in and possessed the land, and…25And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and…26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast…27Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies,…28But after they had rest, they did evil again before…29And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again…30Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against…31Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly…32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the…33Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon…34Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our…35For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and…36Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land…37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou…38And because of all this we make a sure covenant,…