English Standard Version
Nehemiah 5:19
19Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah 5:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
- New International Version (NIV)Remember me with favor, my God, for all I have done for these people.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Remember me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Remember, O my God, all that I have done for these people, and bless me for it.
Context of Nehemiah 5:19
17Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us. 18Now what was prepared at my expense for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people. Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.
Read all of Nehemiah 5Nehemiah 5:19 word by word
זָכְרָה־לִּ֥י אֱלֹהַ֖י לְטוֹבָ֑ה כֹּ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֖יתִי עַל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃ פRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Nehemiah 5:19
- Nehemiah 13:14Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.
- Genesis 40:14Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.
- Psalms 25:6Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
- Psalms 40:17As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
- Psalms 106:4Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people; help me when you save them,
- Jeremiah 29:11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
- Psalms 18:23I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt.
- Matthew 10:42And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward."
- Matthew 25:34Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
- Mark 9:41For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.
Commentaries on Nehemiah 5:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Think upon me, my God, for good - Nehemiah wishes for no reward from man; and he only asks mercy at the hand of his God for what his providence enabled him to do; and which, according to the good hand of his God upon him, he had done faithfully. He does not offer his good deeds to God in extenuation of his sins, or as a compensation for the heaven he expected. Nothing of the kind: he simply says, what any good man might say, My God, as I have done good to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-19Verses 14-19 Those who truly fear God, will not dare to do any thing cruel or unjust. Let all who are in public places remember that they are so placed to do good, not to enrich themselves. Nehemiah mentions it to God in prayer, not as if he had merited any favour from God, but to show that he depended upon God only, to make up to him what he had lost and laid out for his honour. Nehemiah evidently spake and acted as one that knew himself to be a sinner…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19Nehemiah prayed for God to remember and bless him, showing his reliance on God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-196-12. I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words--When such disorders came to the knowledge of the governor, his honest indignation was roused against the perpetrators of the evil. Having summoned a public assembly, he denounced their conduct in terms of just severity. He contrasted it with his own in redeeming with his money some of the Jewish exiles who, through debt or otherwise, had lost their personal liberty in Babylon. He urged the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Nehemiah 5
- 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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