Nehemiah 9:7

Covenant and promises Identity and self-worth

⁵ Then the Levites—Jeshua, 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, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

⁶ You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

⁸ You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

⁹ You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
KJV: Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
WEB: You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
ASV: Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham,
DARBY: Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
BLB: You [are] He, YHWH, the God who chose Abram and brought him out from Ur [of] the Chaldeans, and you set his name [to be] Abraham.

ÅB: Det var du, Herre Gud, som utvalgte Abram og førte ham ut fra kaldeernes Ur og gav ham navnet Abraham.
OTB: Du er Herren Gud, som valgte Abram og førte ham ut fra Ur i Kaldea og ga ham navnet Abraham.
B1930: Det var du, Herre Gud, som utvalgte Abram og førte ham ut fra kaldeernes Ur og gav ham navnet Abraham.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
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Genesis 17:5
No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
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Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
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Acts 7:2–4
And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
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Deuteronomy 10:15
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
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Isaiah 41:8–9
“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
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Genesis 12:1–2
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
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Joshua 24:2–3
And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.
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