Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them. Act 13:2-3Ezr 8:23Jos 7:6Neh 8:21Sa 4:122Ch 20:32Ch 7:102Sa 1:2 The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. Neh 13:3Dan 9:3-10Ezr 10:11Neh 13:30Dan 9:20Ezr 9:2Hos 5:71Jn 1:7-9 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God. Neh 8:3-4Neh 8:7-8 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God. 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, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your 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 You are the LORD, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you. Isa 37:16Gen 1:1Rev 4:11Deu 10:14Deu 6:42Ki 19:15Gen 2:1Isa 44:6 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave 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 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words, for you are righteous. Gen 15:18-21Gen 15:6Heb 6:18Jos 23:14Gen 12:7Gen 17:7-8Jos 21:43-45Tit 1:2
“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea, Exo 3:7-9Act 7:34Exo 14:10-14Exo 2:25Exo 3:16 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his servants, and against all the people of his land, for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today. Dan 9:15Jer 32:20Deu 4:34Exo 14:1-31Exo 18:11Exo 5:2Isa 63:12Isa 63:14 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, 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, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go. Exo 13:21-22Neh 9:19Exo 14:19-20Psa 105:39Psa 107:7Psa 143:8Psa 78:14
“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, Exo 20:1Psa 119:160Exo 19:11Psa 119:127-128Deu 5:22-26Ezk 20:11-13Psa 19:7-11Rom 7:12-14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant, Exo 20:8-11Ezk 20:12Gen 2:3Ezk 20:20Exo 16:23Exo 16:29Deu 4:45Deu 4:5 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them. 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 behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments, Neh 9:29Psa 81:11-14Deu 31:27Heb 3:15Neh 9:10Rom 2:52Ch 30:82Ch 36:13 and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them. Psa 86:5Jol 2:13Psa 145:8-9Psa 86:15Exo 34:6-7Mic 7:18-191Ki 6:13Isa 55:7-9 Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies, Psa 106:19-23Exo 32:4-8Deu 9:12-16Exo 32:31-32Ezk 20:7-44 yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go. Neh 9:27Psa 106:45Mal 3:6Neh 9:12Dan 9:18Dan 9:9Num 14:141Co 10:1-2 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. Psa 143:10Num 11:17Isa 63:11-142Pe 1:21Jhn 4:10Isa 41:17-18Isa 48:21Eph 5:9
“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell. Deu 2:7Deu 8:4Deu 29:5Psa 34:10Act 13:18Amo 5:25Deu 8:2Exo 16:35 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even 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 You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said 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 you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased. Jos 21:43Jos 11:23Jos 18:1Psa 44:2-31Ch 22:182Ti 2:26Jos 21:45Num 14:31 They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness. 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 you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies. 1Ki 14:9Jdg 2:11-12Neh 9:181Ki 18:41Ki 19:10Act 7:522Ch 24:20-21Ezk 20:21 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries. 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 you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies, Jdg 5:311Ki 8:33-341Ki 8:39Jdg 3:11-12Jdg 3:30Jdg 4:1Isa 63:15Psa 106:43-45 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear. Lev 18:5Neh 9:16Neh 9:10Neh 9:26Hos 6:5Jas 4:6-10Jer 43:2Zec 7:11-12 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. Rom 2:42Ch 36:15-162Ki 17:13-18Act 7:51Isa 42:24Isa 63:101Pe 1:112Pe 1:21
“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are 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 awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day. Deu 7:9Neh 1:5Dan 9:4Dan 9:8Mic 7:18-20Dan 9:6Psa 66:3Psa 66:5 However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly. Dan 9:5-14Gen 18:25Psa 106:6Job 34:23Jer 12:1Job 33:27Lam 1:18Lev 26:40-41 Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them. 2Ki 17:13Jer 29:19Deu 31:212Ki 17:15Neh 9:30 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn 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 today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it. Ezr 9:9Deu 28:482Ch 12:8 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, 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 Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.” Neh 10:12Ch 34:31Ezr 10:3Neh 10:292Ch 23:162Ch 29:102Ki 23:32Ch 15:12-13