1 In die autem vigesimo quarto mensis hujus, convenerunt filii Israël in jejunio et in saccis, et humus super eos. 2 Et separatum est semen filiorum Israël ab omni filio alienigena: et steterunt, et confitebantur peccata sua, et iniquitates patrum suorum. 3 Et consurrexerunt ad standum: et legerunt in volumine legis Domini Dei sui, quater in die, et quater confitebantur, et adorabant Dominum Deum suum. 4 Surrexerunt autem super gradum Levitarum Josue, et Bani, et Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, et Chanani: et clamaverunt voce magna ad Dominum Deum suum. 5 Et dixerunt Levitæ Josue, et Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Odaia, Sebnia, Phathathia: Surgite, benedicite Domino Deo vestro ab æterno usque in æternum: et benedicant nomini gloriæ tuæ excelso in omni benedictione et laude. 6 Tu ipse, Domine, solus, tu fecisti cælum, et cælum cælorum, et omnem exercitum eorum: terram, et universa quæ in ea sunt: maria, et omnia quæ in eis sunt: et tu vivificas omnia hæc, et exercitus cæli te adorat. 7 Tu ipse, Domine Deus, qui elegisti Abram, et eduxisti eum de igne Chaldæorum, et posuisti nomen ejus Abraham: 8 et invenisti cor ejus fidele coram te, et percussisti cum eo fœdus ut dares ei terram Chananæi, Hethæi, et Amorrhæi, et Pherezæi, et Jebusæi, et Gergesæi, ut dares semini ejus: et implesti verba tua, quoniam justus es. 9 Et vidisti afflictionem patrum nostrorum in Ægypto, clamoremque eorum audisti super mare Rubrum. 10 Et dedisti signa atque portenta in Pharaone, et in universis servis ejus, et in omni populo terræ illius: cognovisti enim quia superbe egerant contra eos: et fecisti tibi nomen, sicut et in hac die. 11 Et mare divisisti ante eos, et transierunt per medium maris in sicco: persecutores autem eorum projecisti in profundum, quasi lapidem in aquas validas. 12 Et in columna nubis ductor eorum fuisti per diem, et in columna ignis per noctem, ut appareret eis via per quam ingrediebantur. 13 Ad montem quoque Sinai descendisti, et locutus es cum eis de cælo, et dedisti eis judicia recta, et legem veritatis, cæremonias, et præcepta bona: 14 et sabbatum sanctificatum tuum ostendisti eis: et mandata, et cæremonias, et legem præcepisti eis in manu Moysi servi tui. 15 Panem quoque de cælo dedisti eis in fame eorum, et aquam de petra eduxisti eis sitientibus, et dixisti eis ut ingrederentur et possiderent terram, super quam levasti manum tuam ut traderes eis. 16 Ipsi vero et patres nostri superbe egerunt, et induraverunt cervices suas, et non audierunt mandata tua. 17 Et noluerunt audire, et non sunt recordati mirabilium tuorum quæ feceras eis. Et induraverunt cervices suas, et dederunt caput ut converterentur ad servitutem suam, quasi per contentionem. Tu autem, Deus propitius, clemens, et misericors, longanimis, et multæ miserationis, non dereliquisti eos, 18 et quidem cum fecissent sibi vitulum conflatilem, et dixissent: Iste est deus tuus, qui eduxit te de Ægypto: feceruntque blasphemias magnas: 19 tu autem in misericordiis tuis multis non dimisisti eos in deserto: columna nubis non recessit ab eis per diem ut duceret eos in viam, et columna ignis per noctem ut ostenderet eis iter per quod ingrederentur. 20 Et spiritum tuum bonum dedisti, qui doceret eos: et manna tuum non prohibuisti ab ore eorum, et aquam dedisti eis in siti. 21 Quadraginta annis pavisti eos in deserto, nihilque eis defuit: vestimenta eorum non inveteraverunt, et pedes eorum non sunt attriti. 22 Et dedisti eis regna, et populos, et partitus es eis sortes: et possederunt terram Sehon, et terram regis Hesebon, et terram Og regis Basan. 23 Et multiplicasti filios eorum sicut stellas cæli, et adduxisti eos ad terram de qua dixeras patribus eorum ut ingrederentur et possiderent. 24 Et venerunt filii, et possederunt terram, et humiliasti coram eis habitatores terræ Chananæos, et dedisti eos in manu eorum, et reges eorum, et populos terræ, ut facerent eis sicut placebant illis. 25 Ceperunt itaque urbes munitas et humum pinguem, et possederunt domos plenas cunctis bonis: cisternas ab aliis fabricatas, vineas, et oliveta, et ligna pomifera multa: et comederunt, et saturati sunt, et impinguati sunt, et abundaverunt deliciis in bonitate tua magna. 26 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. 27 Et dedisti eos in manu hostium suorum, et afflixerunt eos. Et in tempore tribulationis suæ clamaverunt ad te, et tu de cælo audisti, et secundum miserationes tuas multas dedisti eis salvatores, qui salvarent eos de manu hostium suorum. 28 Cumque requievissent, reversi sunt ut facerent malum in conspectu tuo, et dereliquisti eos in manu inimicorum suorum, et possederunt eos. Conversique sunt, et clamaverunt ad te: tu autem de cælo exaudisti, et liberasti eos in misericordiis tuis, multis temporibus. 29 Et contestatus es eos ut reverterentur ad legem tuam. Ipsi vero superbe egerunt, et non audierunt mandata tua, et in judiciis tuis peccaverunt, quæ faciet homo, et vivet in eis: et dederunt humerum recedentem, et cervicem suam induraverunt, nec audierunt. 30 Et protraxisti super eos annos multos, et contestatus es eos in spiritu tuo per manum prophetarum tuorum: et non audierunt, et tradidisti eos in manu populorum terrarum. 31 In misericordiis autem tuis plurimis non fecisti eos in consumptionem, nec dereliquisti eos: quoniam Deus miserationum et clemens es tu. 32 Nunc itaque Deus noster magne, fortis et terribilis, custodiens pactum et misericordiam, ne avertas a facie tua omnem laborem, qui invenit nos, reges nostros, et principes nostros, et sacerdotes nostros, et prophetas nostros, et patres nostros, et omnem populum tuum a diebus regis Assur usque in diem hanc. 33 Et tu justus es in omnibus quæ venerunt super nos: quia veritatem fecisti, nos autem impie egimus. 34 Reges nostri, principes nostri, sacerdotes nostri et patres nostri non fecerunt legem tuam, et non attenderunt mandata tua, et testimonia tua quæ testificatus es in eis. 35 Et ipsi in regnis suis, et in bonitate tua multa quam dederas eis, et in terra latissima et pingui quam tradideras in conspectu eorum, non servierunt tibi, nec reversi sunt a studiis suis pessimis. 36 Ecce nos ipsi hodie servi sumus: et terra quam dedisti patribus nostris ut comederent panem ejus, et quæ bona sunt ejus, et nos ipsi servi sumus in ea. 37 Et fruges ejus multiplicantur regibus quos posuisti super nos propter peccata nostra: et corporibus nostris dominantur, et jumentis nostris secundum voluntatem suam: et in tribulatione magna sumus. 38 Super omnibus ergo his nos ipsi percutimus fœdus, et scribimus: et signant principes nostri, Levitæ nostri, et sacerdotes nostri.
Nehemiah 9 Clementine Vulgate
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Bani
Levite named Bani in the Levites who taught the Law, led confession and sealed the covenant (Nehemiah 8:7, 9:4-5, 10:13). The lists do not say whether same-named Levites in…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 8:7; Nehemiah 9:4; Nehemiah 9:5
Bunni
Levite named Bunni in the Levites who stood on the raised platform and cried out to the LORD (Nehemiah 9:4). The lists do not say whether same-named Levites in different lists are…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 9:4
Chenani
Levite named Chenani in the Levites who stood on the raised platform and cried out to the LORD (Nehemiah 9:4). The lists do not say whether same-named Levites in different lists…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 9:4
Hashabneiah
Levite named Hashabneiah in the Levites who called the people to bless the LORD (Nehemiah 9:5). The lists do not say whether same-named Levites in different lists are one man.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 9:5
Hodiah
Levite named Hodiah in the Levites who taught the Law, led prayer and sealed the covenant. The lists do not say whether same-named Levites in different lists are one man.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 8:7; Nehemiah 9:5; Nehemiah 10:10
Kadmiel
Levite whose family returned and who, with Jeshua and the sons of Henadad, oversaw the temple builders; he later joined in the Levites’ prayer and the covenant.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 2:40; Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 9:4
Pethahiah
Levite named Pethahiah in the Levites who called the people to bless the LORD (Nehemiah 9:5). The lists do not say whether same-named Levites in different lists are one man.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 9:5
Shebaniah
Levite named Shebaniah in the Levites who led the prayer and sealed the covenant (the name appears twice in Neh 10:10-12). The lists do not say whether same-named Levites in…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 9:4; Nehemiah 9:5; Nehemiah 10:10
Places
Ur
Traditionally the southern Sumerian city (Tell el-Muqayyar) with its famous ziggurat, though some scholars argue for a northern Ur (location debated). Abraham set out from here.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:31; Genesis 15:7; Nehemiah 9:7
Cross references (38)
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- 1 Ezra 8:23; Nehemiah 8:2; Joshua 7:6; Acts 13:2–3; 1 Samuel 4:12
- 2 Nehemiah 13:3; Daniel 9:3–10; Ezra 10:11; Nehemiah 13:30; Daniel 9:20
- 3 Nehemiah 8:3–4; Nehemiah 8:7–8
- 4 Nehemiah 8:7; Nehemiah 12:8; 2 Chronicles 20:19; Nehemiah 9:5; Nehemiah 10:9–13
- 5 Psalm 103:1–2; 2 Corinthians 4:6; 1 Peter 1:3; Psalm 106:2; Matthew 11:25
- 6 Isaiah 37:16; Genesis 1:1; Revelation 4:11; Deuteronomy 10:14; Deuteronomy 6:4
- 7 Genesis 11:31; Genesis 17:5; Isaiah 51:2; Acts 7:2–4; Deuteronomy 10:15
- 8 Hebrews 6:18; Genesis 15:18–21; Genesis 15:6; Joshua 23:14; Genesis 12:7
- 9 Exodus 3:7–9; Exodus 2:25; Exodus 14:10–14; Exodus 3:16; Acts 7:34
- 10 Daniel 9:15; Jeremiah 32:20; Exodus 5:2; Exodus 14:1–31; Isaiah 63:12
- 11 Psalm 78:13; Exodus 14:21–22; Exodus 14:27–28; Isaiah 63:11–13; Psalm 66:6
- 12 Exodus 13:21–22; Nehemiah 9:19; Psalm 107:7; Psalm 78:14; Psalm 105:39
- 13 Psalm 119:160; Exodus 20:1; Exodus 19:11; Psalm 119:127–128; Ezekiel 20:11–13
- 14 Exodus 20:8–11; Genesis 2:3; Ezekiel 20:12; Ezekiel 20:20; Exodus 16:29
- 15 1 Corinthians 10:3–4; Deuteronomy 1:8; Exodus 17:6; Exodus 16:14–15; Exodus 16:4
- 16 Nehemiah 9:29; Psalm 81:11–14; Hebrews 3:15; Deuteronomy 31:27; Nehemiah 9:10
- 17 Joel 2:13; Psalm 86:5; Psalm 145:8–9; Psalm 86:15; Exodus 34:6–7
- 18 Psalm 106:19–23; Exodus 32:4–8; Exodus 32:31–32; Ezekiel 20:7–44; Deuteronomy 9:12–16
- 19 Psalm 106:45; Nehemiah 9:27; Malachi 3:6; Nehemiah 9:12; Numbers 14:14
- 20 Psalm 143:10; Numbers 11:17; Isaiah 63:11–14; John 4:10; 2 Peter 1:21
- 21 Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 8:4; Deuteronomy 29:5; Psalm 34:10; Numbers 14:33–34
- 22 Numbers 21:21–35; Psalm 105:44; Joshua 11:23; Psalm 78:65; Deuteronomy 3:1–17
- 23 Genesis 22:17; Genesis 15:5; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 12:7
- 24 Joshua 18:1; Joshua 21:43; 1 Chronicles 22:18; Psalm 44:2–3; Joshua 11:23
- 25 Deuteronomy 32:15; Deuteronomy 3:5; Nehemiah 9:35; 1 Kings 8:66; Deuteronomy 32:13
- 26 1 Kings 14:9; Judges 2:11–12; Nehemiah 9:18; Acts 7:52; 1 Kings 19:10
- 27 Psalm 106:41–45; 2 Kings 14:27; Daniel 9:10–14; 2 Kings 13:5; Judges 2:18
- 28 Judges 5:31–6:1; 1 Kings 8:33–34; 1 Kings 8:39; Judges 4:1; Judges 3:11–12
- 29 Nehemiah 9:16; Leviticus 18:5; Nehemiah 9:26; Nehemiah 9:10; James 4:6–10
- 30 Romans 2:4; 2 Chronicles 36:15–16; Isaiah 63:10; Isaiah 42:24; Acts 7:51
- 31 Lamentations 3:22; Psalm 103:8–9; Nehemiah 9:17; Jeremiah 4:27; Exodus 34:6–7
- 32 Deuteronomy 7:9; Nehemiah 1:5; Daniel 9:4; Daniel 9:8; Micah 7:18–20
- 33 Psalm 106:6; Daniel 9:5–14; Genesis 18:25; Job 34:23; Psalm 119:137
- 34 Jeremiah 29:19; 2 Kings 17:13; Deuteronomy 31:21; 2 Kings 17:15; Nehemiah 9:30
- 35 Deuteronomy 28:47; Deuteronomy 32:12–15; Jeremiah 5:19; Deuteronomy 8:7–10; Deuteronomy 31:21
- 36 Ezra 9:9; Deuteronomy 28:48; 2 Chronicles 12:8
- 37 Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:48; Ezra 7:24; Deuteronomy 28:39; Nehemiah 5:8
- 38 Nehemiah 10:1; Nehemiah 10:29; 2 Chronicles 34:31; Ezra 10:3; 2 Kings 23:3
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And Ezra says, Thou gavest also Thy good Spirit to instruct them.
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