Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, New Living Translation “Please remember what you told your servant Moses: ‘If you are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the nations. English Standard Version Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, Berean Standard Bible Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, King James Bible Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: New King James Version Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; New American Standard Bible Remember, please, the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples; NASB 1995 “Remember the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful I will scatter you among the peoples; NASB 1977 “Remember the word which Thou didst command Thy servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful I will scatter you among the peoples; Legacy Standard Bible Remember the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples; Amplified Bible Please remember the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful and violate your obligations to Me I will scatter you [abroad] among the peoples; Christian Standard Bible Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples. Holman Christian Standard Bible Please remember what You commanded Your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples. American Standard Version Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples: Contemporary English Version Please remember the promise you made to Moses. You told him that if we were unfaithful, you would scatter us among foreign nations. English Revised Version Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples: GOD'S WORD® Translation Please remember what you told us through your servant Moses: 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations. Good News Translation Remember now what you told Moses: 'If you people of Israel are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the other nations. International Standard Version Please remember what you spoke in commanding your servant Moses. You said, 'If you rebel, I will scatter you among the nations Majority Standard Bible Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ?If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, NET Bible Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses: 'If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations. New Heart English Bible "Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples; Webster's Bible Translation Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: World English Bible “Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples; Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionPlease remember the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, You trespass—I scatter you among peoples; Young's Literal Translation 'Remember, I pray Thee, the word that Thou didst command Moses Thy servant, saying, Ye -- ye trespass -- I scatter you among peoples; Smith's Literal Translation Remember now the word that thou didst command Moses thy servant, saying, Ye will transgress; I will scatter you among the nations: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleRemember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant, saying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: Catholic Public Domain Version Remember the word which you commanded to your servant Moses, saying: ‘When you will have transgressed, I will disperse you among the nations. New American Bible But remember the admonition which you addressed to Moses, your servant, when you said: If you prove faithless, I will scatter you among the peoples; New Revised Standard Version Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleRemember now all the commandments which thou didst command thy servant Moses, saying, If you transgress against me, I will scatter you among the nations; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Remember all the commandments that you commanded Moshe your Servant, and you said to him: “You all shall deny me, and I shall scatter you among the nations. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Remember, I beseech Thee, the word that Thou didst command Thy servant Moses, saying: If ye deal treacherously, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples; Brenton Septuagint Translation Remember, I pray thee, the word wherewith thou didst charge thy servant Moses, saying, If ye break covenant with me, I will disperse you among the nations. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Nehemiah's Prayer…7We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses. 8Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’… Cross References Deuteronomy 30:1-5 “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, / and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, / then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. ... Leviticus 26:33-45 But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste. / Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. / As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it. ... Deuteronomy 4:25-31 After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger— / I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. / Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you. ... Jeremiah 29:10-14 For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. / For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. / Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ... 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, / and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. Daniel 9:4-19 And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments, / we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances. / We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land. ... Ezekiel 11:16-20 Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’ / Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.’ / When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations. ... 1 Kings 8:46-53 When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near, / and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’ / and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name, ... Psalm 106:44-47 Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress. / And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion. / He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive. ... Isaiah 11:11-12 On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. / He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Acts 3:19-21 Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away, / that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you. / Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets. Luke 21:24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Romans 11:25-27 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. / And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob. / And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.” Matthew 24:31 And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. Hebrews 8:10-12 For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. / No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. / For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.” Treasury of Scripture Remember, I beseech you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: Remember Psalm 119:49 ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast 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 after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Deuteronomy 4:25-27 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: … Deuteronomy 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. Jump to Previous Abroad Act Beg Beseech Command Commanded Commandedst Deal Instruction Mind Moses Nations Order Peoples Remember Scatter Servant Transgress Treacherously Trespass Unfaithful Unfaithfully Wandering Word WrongJump to Next Abroad Act Beg Beseech Command Commanded Commandedst Deal Instruction Mind Moses Nations Order Peoples Remember Scatter Servant Transgress Treacherously Trespass Unfaithful Unfaithfully Wandering Word WrongNehemiah 1 1. Nehemiah, understanding by Hanani the misery of Jerusalem, mourns, fasts, and prays5. His prayer Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses This phrase highlights Nehemiah's appeal to God's covenantal promises. The reference to Moses connects to the foundational covenant given at Sinai, where God established Israel as His chosen people (Exodus 19:5-6). Nehemiah's prayer is rooted in the Torah, specifically Leviticus 26:33 and Deuteronomy 28:64, where God warned Israel of the consequences of disobedience. This invocation of Moses underscores the continuity of God's promises and the importance of the Law in guiding Israel's relationship with God. when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, Persons / Places / Events 1. NehemiahA Jewish cupbearer to the Persian king Artaxerxes, who becomes a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem's walls. 2. Moses The prophet and leader who received the Law from God and led the Israelites out of Egypt. 3. Jerusalem The city central to Jewish identity and worship, whose walls Nehemiah seeks to rebuild. 4. The Exile The scattering of the Israelites among the nations due to their unfaithfulness, as warned by God. 5. The Covenant The agreement between God and Israel, which included blessings for obedience and consequences for disobedience. Teaching Points The Importance of Remembering God's WordNehemiah's prayer begins with recalling God's promises, emphasizing the need to know and remember Scripture in our prayers and daily lives. The Consequences of Unfaithfulness The scattering of Israel serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness of sin and the importance of faithfulness to God. The Power of Confession and Repentance Nehemiah's acknowledgment of Israel's sins and appeal to God's mercy demonstrates the power of confession and the hope of restoration. God's Faithfulness to His Promises Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God's promise to gather His people if they return to Him shows His unwavering faithfulness and mercy. Leadership Rooted in Prayer Nehemiah's leadership begins with prayer, setting an example for us to seek God's guidance and strength in all endeavors.Verse 8. - If ye transgress, etc. This is not a quotation, but a reference to the general sense of various passages, as, for instance, Leviticus 26:27-45; Deuteronomy 30:1-5, etc. The sacred historians habitually refer to the older Scriptures in this way, quoting them in the spirit rather than in the letter. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Remember,זְכָר־ (zə·ḵār-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male I pray, נָא֙ (nā) Interjection Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then' the word הַדָּבָ֔ר (had·dā·ḇār) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause that אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that You commanded צִוִּ֛יתָ (ṣiw·wî·ṯā) Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order Your servant עַבְדְּךָ֖ (‘aḇ·də·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5650: Slave, servant Moses מֹשֶׁ֥ה (mō·šeh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver when You said, לֵאמֹ֑ר (lê·mōr) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 559: To utter, say ‘If you אַתֶּ֣ם (’at·tem) Pronoun - second person masculine plural Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you are unfaithful, תִּמְעָ֔לוּ (tim·‘ā·lū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 4603: To cover up, to act covertly, treacherously I אֲנִ֕י (’ă·nî) Pronoun - first person common singular Strong's 589: I will scatter אָפִ֥יץ (’ā·p̄îṣ) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 6327: To be dispersed or scattered you אֶתְכֶ֖ם (’eṯ·ḵem) Direct object marker | second person masculine plural Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case among the nations, בָּעַמִּֽים׃ (bā·‘am·mîm) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock Links Nehemiah 1:8 NIVNehemiah 1:8 NLT Nehemiah 1:8 ESV Nehemiah 1:8 NASB Nehemiah 1:8 KJV Nehemiah 1:8 BibleApps.com Nehemiah 1:8 Biblia Paralela Nehemiah 1:8 Chinese Bible Nehemiah 1:8 French Bible Nehemiah 1:8 Catholic Bible OT History: Nehemiah 1:8 Remember I beg you the word that (Neh Ne) |
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