Nehemiah 1:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 1

⁸Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

Nehemiah 1:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
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: …
Leviticus 26:33-46
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. …
1 Kings 9:6-7
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: …
Deuteronomy 32:26-28
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-11)

We have here Nehemiah’s prayer, a prayer that has reference to all the prayers which he had for some time before been putting up to God day and night, while he continued his sorrows for the desolations of Jerusalem, and withal to the petition he was now intending to present to the king his master for his favour to Jerusalem. We may observe in this prayer, I. His humble and reverent address to God,…