Nehemiah 9:26

Translations

Modern

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And they were disobedient and rebelled against You, and they cast Your law behind their backs, and Your prophets they killed, those who testified against them, so as to turn them back to You, and they did great blasphemies.

Latin

Provocaverunt autem te ad iracundiam, et recesserunt a te, et projecerunt legem tuam post terga sua: et prophetas tuos occiderunt, qui contestabantur eos ut reverterentur ad te: feceruntque blasphemias grandes.

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English

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Notes

Nehemiah 9:26–27

The prayer describes the events in the book of Judges (see Judges 2:11–23).

Nehemiah 9:5–37

This lengthy prayer admits the nation's sins and praises God for his compassion throughout history (compare Psalms 105–106; 135–136). It encouraged listeners to admit their own unfaithfulness and ask God for compassion and forgiveness.

Nehemiah 7:73–10:39

This section, possibly from Ezra’s personal memoirs, explains how Ezra’s teaching of God’s law renewed the people's commitment to serve God and follow his instructions. Spiritual revival occurred alongside the civic work of Ezra and Nehemiah.

Theme notes and profiles

Community Responsibility: Achan’s Sin God's Word at the Center Nehemiah’s Confidence in God

Related verses

1 Kings 14:9
You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
Judges 2:11–12
And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
Nehemiah 9:18
Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
1 Kings 18:4
…for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
1 Kings 19:10
“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
Matthew 21:35
But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Matthew 23:34–37
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.
2 Chronicles 24:20–21
Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
Psalm 50:17
For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Judges 3:6–7
And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Glossary

Book of Nehemiah Kindness Suffering

Topics

Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Backsliding: Israel Character of the Wicked: Disobedient Ingratitude to God: Punishment of Public Prayer: Jeshua Rebellion Against God: Exhibited in Despising his Law Rebellion Against God: Forgiven Upon Repentance Rebellion Against God: Provokes God Rebellion Against God: They Who are Guilty of Delivered Into the Hands of Enemies on Account of Repentance: Exemplified Riches: Often Lead to Rebelling Against God Sin: Confession of Thankfulness: To God of the Levites The Law of God: Punishment for Disobeying The Punishment of the Wicked: On Account of Their: Disobeying God

Nehemiah 9:26

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