The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
in the month
Ezra 10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together …
Zechariah 7:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word …
in the twentieth
Ezra 7:7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, …
Shushan (Shushan, or Susa, was the capital of Susiana, a province of Persia, and the winter residence of the Persian monarchs; situated about
Esther 1:2 That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of …
Esther 3:15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and …
Daniel 8:2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was …
That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
Hanani
Nehemiah 7:2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, …
I asked
Psalm 122:6-9 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you…
Psalm 137:5,6 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning…
that had escaped
Ezra 9:8,9,14 And now for a little space grace has been showed from the LORD our …
Jeremiah 44:14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land …
Ezekiel 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where …
Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains …
Ezekiel 24:26,27 That he that escapes in that day shall come to you, to cause you …
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
the province
Nehemiah 7:6 These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, …
Nehemiah 11:3 Now these are the chief of the province that dwelled in Jerusalem…
Ezra 2:1 Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the …
Ezra 5:8 Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judea, …
Esther 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus …
in great
Nehemiah 9:36,37 Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that you gave …
Psalm 44:11-14 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered …
Psalm 137:1-3 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we …
Isaiah 32:9-14 Rise up, you women that are at ease; hear my voice, you careless …
Lamentations 1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries …
Lamentations 3:61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.
reproach
1 Kings 9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; …
Psalm 79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to …
Isaiah 43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have …
Jeremiah 24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the …
Jeremiah 29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with …
Jeremiah 42:18 For thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and …
Jeremiah 44:8-12 In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning …
the wall
Nehemiah 2:17 Then said I to them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem …
2 Kings 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the …
Isaiah 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will …
Isaiah 64:10,11 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem …
Jeremiah 5:10 Go you up on her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take …
Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the …
Jeremiah 52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of …
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
I sat down
1 Samuel 4:17-22 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, …
Ezra 10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and …
Psalm 69:9,10 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of …
Psalm 102:13,14 You shall arise, and have mercy on Zion: for the time to favor her, …
Psalm 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we …
Daniel 9:3 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, …
Zephaniah 3:18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who …
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
the God
Nehemiah 2:4 Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed …
Ezra 5:11,12 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of …
Daniel 2:18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret…
Jonah 1:9 And he said to them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God …
And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
the great
Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, …
Deuteronomy 7:21 You shall not be affrighted at them: for the LORD your God is among …
1 Chronicles 17:21 And what one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom …
Psalm 47:2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, …
keepeth
Exodus 20:6 And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God…
1 Kings 8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven …
Hebrews 6:13-18 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no …
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
thine ear
1 Kings 8:28,29 Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, …
2 Chronicles 6:40 Now, my God, let, I beseech you, your eyes be open, and let your …
Psalm 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.
Psalm 130:2 Lord, hear my voice: let your ears be attentive to the voice of my …
Daniel 9:17,18 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his …
day and night
1 Samuel 15:11 It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned …
Psalm 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and …
Psalm 88:1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
Luke 2:37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed …
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to …
1 Timothy 5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and …
2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience…
confess
Ezra 9:6,7 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to …
Ezra 10:11 Now therefore make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and …
Psalm 32:5 I acknowledge my sin to you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, …
Isaiah 64:6,7 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are …
Lamentations 3:39-42 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins…
Daniel 9:4,20 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, …
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our …
both I
2 Chronicles 28:10 And now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem …
2 Chronicles 29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in …
Psalm 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have …
Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean …
Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the …
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
dealt
Nehemiah 9:29-35 And testified against them, that you might bring them again to your …
Psalm 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have …
Daniel 9:5,6 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, …
corruptly
2 Chronicles 27:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according …
Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: …
Zephaniah 3:7 I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction; so …
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great …
the commandments
Leviticus 27:34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the …
Deuteronomy 4:1 Now therefore listen, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, …
Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the …
Deuteronomy 6:1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, …
Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of …
1 Kings 2:3 And keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to …
Psalm 19:8,9 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment …
Psalm 119:5-8 O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!…
which thou
Deuteronomy 4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD …
2 Chronicles 25:4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law …
Ezra 7:6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the …
Daniel 9:11,13 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even by departing, that …
Malachi 4:4 Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him …
Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
Remember
Psalm 119:49 Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope.
Luke 1:72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
If ye transgress
Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword …
Deuteronomy 4:25-27 When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall …
Deuteronomy 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end …
Deuteronomy 32:26-28 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance …
1 Kings 9:6,7 But if you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children…
But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
if ye turn
Leviticus 26:39-42 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in …
Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find …
Deuteronomy 30:2-5 And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according …
Jeremiah 29:11-14 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts …
yet will I
1 Chronicles 16:35 And say you, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, …
Psalm 106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to …
Psalm 147:2 The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble …
Isaiah 56:8 The Lord GOD, which gathers the outcasts of Israel said, Yet will …
Jeremiah 12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will …
Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles …
Jeremiah 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, where I have driven …
Jeremiah 50:19,20 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed …
Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and …
will bring
Jeremiah 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, said the LORD; for I am married to …
Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of …
the place
Deuteronomy 12:5,21 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all …
1 Kings 9:3 And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, …
Ezra 6:12 And the God that has caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings …
Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
Now these
Exodus 32:11 And Moses sought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does your …
Deuteronomy 9:29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought …
Isaiah 63:16-19 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and …
Isaiah 64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: …
Daniel 9:15 And now, O Lord our God, that have brought your people forth out …
whom
Exodus 15:13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: …
Deuteronomy 15:15 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, …
Psalm 74:2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the …
thy strong
Exodus 6:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, Now shall you see what I will do to …
Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial …
Psalm 136:12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endures …
Daniel 9:15 And now, O Lord our God, that have brought your people forth out …
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Let now. See on ver.
Nehemiah 1:6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may hear …
Psalm 86:6 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
Psalm 130:2 Lord, hear my voice: let your ears be attentive to the voice of my …
who desire
Proverbs 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Isaiah 26:8,9 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; …
Hebrews 13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things …
grant
Nehemiah 2:8 And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest…
Genesis 32:11,28 Deliver me, I pray you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand …
Genesis 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send …
Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the …
Ezra 7:6,27,28 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the …
Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: …
For I was (The office of cup-bearer was one of great trust, honour, and emolument, in the Persian court. To be in such a place of trust he must have been in the king's confidence; for no eastern potentate would have a cup-bearer to whom he could not trust his life, poison being often administered in that way. It was an office much desired, because it gave access to the king in those seasons of hilarity when men are most disposed to grant favours.)
Nehemiah 2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of …
Genesis 40:2,9-13,21,23 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief …
Genesis 41:9 Then spoke the chief butler to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my …
