Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. Act 13:2-3Ezr 8:23Jos 7:6Neh 8:21Sa 4:122Ch 20:32Ch 7:102Sa 1:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 1 Neh 13:3Dan 9:3-10Ezr 10:11Neh 13:30Dan 9:20Ezr 9:2Hos 5:71Jn 1:7-9 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God. Neh 8:3-4Neh 8:7-8
¶ Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. 2 Neh 8:72Ch 20:19Neh 10:9-13Neh 12:8Neh 9:5Act 7:60Jhn 11:43Lam 3:8 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. Psa 103:1-21Pe 1:32Co 4:61Ch 29:13Ezr 3:11Jer 33:10-11Mat 11:25Psa 106:2 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. Isa 37:16Gen 1:1Rev 4:11Deu 10:14Deu 6:42Ki 19:15Gen 2:1Isa 44:6 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; Gen 11:31Gen 17:5Isa 51:2Act 7:2-4Deu 10:15Gen 12:1-2Gen 15:7Isa 41:8-9 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: Gen 15:18-21Gen 15:6Heb 6:18Jos 23:14Gen 12:7Gen 17:7-8Jos 21:43-45Tit 1:2 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; Exo 3:7-9Act 7:34Exo 14:10-14Exo 2:25Exo 3:16 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. Dan 9:15Jer 32:20Deu 4:34Exo 14:1-31Exo 18:11Exo 5:2Isa 63:12Isa 63:14 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. Psa 78:13Exo 14:21-22Exo 14:27-28Heb 11:29Isa 63:11-13Psa 106:9-11Psa 114:3-5Psa 136:13-15 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go. Exo 13:21-22Neh 9:19Exo 14:19-20Psa 105:39Psa 107:7Psa 143:8Psa 78:14 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 3 Exo 20:1Psa 119:160Exo 19:11Psa 119:127-128Deu 5:22-26Ezk 20:11-13Psa 19:7-11Rom 7:12-14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: Exo 20:8-11Ezk 20:12Gen 2:3Ezk 20:20Exo 16:23Exo 16:29Deu 4:45Deu 4:5 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them. 4 1Co 10:3-4Deu 1:8Exo 17:6Exo 16:14-15Exo 16:4Jhn 6:31-35Psa 105:40-41Deu 8:3 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, Neh 9:29Psa 81:11-14Deu 31:27Heb 3:15Neh 9:10Rom 2:52Ch 30:82Ch 36:13 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. 5 Psa 86:5Jol 2:13Psa 145:8-9Psa 86:15Exo 34:6-7Mic 7:18-191Ki 6:13Isa 55:7-9 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations; Psa 106:19-23Exo 32:4-8Deu 9:12-16Exo 32:31-32Ezk 20:7-44 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go. Neh 9:27Psa 106:45Mal 3:6Neh 9:12Dan 9:18Dan 9:9Num 14:141Co 10:1-2 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. Psa 143:10Num 11:17Isa 63:11-142Pe 1:21Jhn 4:10Isa 41:17-18Isa 48:21Eph 5:9 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. Deu 2:7Deu 8:4Deu 29:5Psa 34:10Act 13:18Amo 5:25Deu 8:2Exo 16:35 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. Num 21:21-35Deu 2:26-36Deu 3:1-17Deu 32:26Jos 10:11Jos 11:23Psa 105:44Psa 135:10-12 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. Gen 22:17Gen 15:51Ch 27:23Gen 12:7Gen 13:15-17Gen 15:18Gen 17:8Gen 26:3 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. 6 Jos 21:43Jos 11:23Jos 18:1Psa 44:2-31Ch 22:182Ti 2:26Jos 21:45Num 14:31 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. 7 8 Deu 32:15Deu 3:5Neh 9:351Ki 8:66Deu 32:13Deu 6:10-12Ezk 20:6Hos 3:5 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. 1Ki 14:9Jdg 2:11-12Neh 9:181Ki 18:41Ki 19:10Act 7:522Ch 24:20-21Ezk 20:21 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies. Psa 106:41-452Ki 13:52Ki 14:27Dan 9:10-141Sa 12:10-112Ch 36:17Deu 31:16-18Deu 4:29-31 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies; 9 Jdg 5:311Ki 8:33-341Ki 8:39Jdg 3:11-12Jdg 3:30Jdg 4:1Isa 63:15Psa 106:43-45 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. 10 Lev 18:5Neh 9:16Neh 9:10Neh 9:26Hos 6:5Jas 4:6-10Jer 43:2Zec 7:11-12 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. 11 12 Rom 2:42Ch 36:15-162Ki 17:13-18Act 7:51Isa 42:24Isa 63:101Pe 1:112Pe 1:21 Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God. Lam 3:22Exo 34:6-7Jer 4:27Neh 9:17Psa 103:8-9Jer 5:18Jer 5:10Psa 145:8-9 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. 13 14 Deu 7:9Neh 1:5Dan 9:4Dan 9:8Mic 7:18-20Dan 9:6Psa 66:3Psa 66:5 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: Dan 9:5-14Gen 18:25Psa 106:6Job 34:23Jer 12:1Job 33:27Lam 1:18Lev 26:40-41 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. 2Ki 17:13Jer 29:19Deu 31:212Ki 17:15Neh 9:30 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Deu 28:47Deu 32:12-15Jer 5:19Deu 31:21Deu 8:7-10Neh 9:25Rom 3:4-5 Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it: Ezr 9:9Deu 28:482Ch 12:8 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. Deu 28:33Deu 28:48Ezr 7:24Deu 28:39Deu 28:51Ezr 4:13Ezr 6:8Jhn 8:33 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it. 15 Neh 10:12Ch 34:31Ezr 10:3Neh 10:292Ch 23:162Ch 29:102Ki 23:32Ch 15:12-13