American Standard Version
Nehemiah 9:2
2And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Nehemiah 9:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
- New International Version (NIV)Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
Context of Nehemiah 9:2
1Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them. And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 3And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day; andanotherfourth part they confessed, and worshipped Jehovah their God. 4Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto Jehovah their God.
Read all of Nehemiah 9Nehemiah 9:2 word by word
וַיִּבָּֽדְלוּ֙ זֶ֣רַע יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִכֹּ֖ל בְּנֵ֣י נֵכָ֑ר וַיַּעַמְד֗וּ וַיִּתְוַדּוּ֙ עַל־חַטֹּ֣אתֵיהֶ֔ם וַעֲוֹנ֖וֹת אֲבֹתֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Nehemiah 9:2
- Nehemiah 13:3And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
- Ezra 9:2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
- Ezra 10:11Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
- Psalms 144:7Stretch forth thy hand from above; Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of aliens;
- Isaiah 2:6For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
- Hosea 5:7They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.
- Nehemiah 1:6let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee. Yea, I and my father’s house have sinned:
- Leviticus 26:39And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
- Ezra 9:6and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.
- Psalms 106:6We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
- Daniel 9:3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- 1 John 1:7but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Commentaries on Nehemiah 9:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2The seed of Israel separated themselves - A reformation of this kind was begun by Ezra, Ezra 10:3; but it appears that either more were found out who had taken strange wives, or else those who had separated from them had taken them again. And stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. - They acknowledged that they had been sinners against God throughout all their generations; that their fathers had sinned and were punished; and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins: This might refer to the issue of intermarriage with foreigners, as described in Ezra 9–10.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers--Not only did they read in their recent sufferings a punishment of the national apostasy and guilt, but they had made themselves partakers of their fathers' sins by following the same evil ways.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Nehemiah 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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