Nehemiah 9:34
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Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them.

nor hearkened.

Jeremiah 29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord: which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising by night, and sending: and you have not heard, saith the Lord.

thy testimonies.

Nehemiah 9:30 And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands.

2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

thou didst.

Deuteronomy 31:21 And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them, this canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their thoughts, and what they are about to do this day, before that I bring them into the land which I have promised them.

2 Kings 17:13 And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets.

Context
The People Confess Their Sins
33And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly. 34Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them.35And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their most wicked devices.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:33
And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.

Nehemiah 9:35
And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their most wicked devices.

Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.

Lexicon
Our kings
מְלָכֵ֤ינוּ (mə·lā·ḵê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 4428: A king

and leaders
שָׂרֵ֙ינוּ֙ (śā·rê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince

and priests
כֹּהֲנֵ֣ינוּ (kō·hă·nê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3548: Priest

and fathers
וַאֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ (wa·’ă·ḇō·ṯê·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

did not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

obey
עָשׂ֖וּ (‘ā·śū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

Your law
תּוֹרָתֶ֑ךָ (tō·w·rā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8451: Direction, instruction, law

or listen
הִקְשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ (hiq·šî·ḇū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7181: To prick up the ears, hearken

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

Your commandments
מִצְוֺתֶ֔יךָ (miṣ·wō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4687: Commandment

and warnings
וּלְעֵ֣דְוֺתֶ֔יךָ (ū·lə·‘ê·ḏə·wō·ṯe·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5715: Testimony

that
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

You gave
הַעִידֹ֖תָ (ha·‘î·ḏō·ṯā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5749: To duplicate, repeat, to protest, testify, to encompass, restore

them.
בָּהֶֽם׃ (bā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies, with which you did testify against them.

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.

And our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our fathers, have not performed thy law, and have not given heed to thy commandments, and have not kept thy testimonies which thou didst testify to them.

And our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers, have not performed thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

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.

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened to thy commandments and thy testimonies, with which thou didst testify against them.

neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;
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