Nehemiah 9:26

Sin Pride Obedience

²⁴ So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.

²⁵ They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

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.

²⁷ So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

²⁸ But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.
KJV: 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.
WEB: “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.
ASV: Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
DARBY: But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
BLB: 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.

ÅB: Men de ble gjenstridige og satte seg opp imot deg og kastet din lov bak sin rygg; de drepte dine profeter, som vitnet for dem og ville føre dem tilbake til deg; og de gjorde seg skyldige i store bespottelser.
OTB: Men de ble ulydige og gjorde opprør mot deg; de vendte ryggen til din lov. De drepte dine profeter, som hadde advart dem for å vende dem tilbake til deg, og de begikk store blasfemier.
B1930: Men de blev gjenstridige og satte sig op imot dig og kastet din lov bak sin rygg; de drepte dine profeter, som vidnet for dem og vilde føre dem tilbake til dig; og de gjorde sig skyldige i store bespottelser.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

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.
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Judges 2:11–12
And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
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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,
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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—
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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.”
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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.)
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Matthew 21:35
But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
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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.’”
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