Tree of Life Version
Nehemiah 13:29
29O my God, please remember them for the defilement of the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
Nehemiah 13:29 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
- New International Version (NIV)Remember them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
Context of Nehemiah 13:29
27Must we then hear about you doing all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful with our God by marrying foreign women?” 28Now one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the kohen gadol , was son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him from me. O my God, please remember them for the defilement of the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites. 30So I purged them from everything foreign and I assigned duties for the kohanim and the Levites, each to his own task, 31and for the wood offering at appointed times and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
Read all of Nehemiah 13Nehemiah 13:29 word by word
זָכְרָ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם אֱלֹהָ֑י עַ֚ל גָּאֳלֵ֣י הַכְּהֻנָּ֔ה וּבְרִ֥ית הַכְּהֻנָּ֖ה וְהַלְוִיִּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Nehemiah 13:29
- Nehemiah 6:14Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of theirs, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who have been trying to intimidate me.
- Psalms 59:5For no guilt of mine, they run and set things up. Awake! Help me! Look!
- 2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm—the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
- Leviticus 21:1Then Adonai said to Moses, “Speak to the kohanim, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: A kohen is not to allow himself to become unclean for the dead among his people,
- Numbers 16:9Isn’t it enough that the God of Israel has set you apart from the community of Israel to bring you near to Him to do the work of the Tabernacle of Adonai and to stand before the community to minister to them?
- Numbers 25:12So now say: See, I am making with him a covenant of shalom!
- 1 Samuel 2:30Therefore Adonai God of Israel declares, I indeed said that your house and your father’s house should walk before Me forever. But now declares Adonai, far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
- Malachi 2:4Then you will know that I have sent this command to you, to be My covenant with Levi,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
Commentaries on Nehemiah 13:29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29Because they have defiled the priesthood - God, therefore, will remember their iniquities against them, and punish them for their transgressions. These words of Nehemiah are to be understood declaratively.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-31Verses 23-31 If either parent be ungodly, corrupt nature will incline the children to take after that one; which is a strong reason why Christians should not be unequally yoked. In the education of children, great care should be taken about the government of their tongues; that they learn not the language of Ashdod, no impious or impure talk, no corrupt communication. Nehemiah showed the evil of these marriages. Some, more obstinate than the rest, he…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29Remember them, O my God: Many likely resented Nehemiah's strong stance against intermarriage in the high priest's family. He prayed for God's judgment on these spiritual leaders who defiled the priesthood.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-3115-22. In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine-presses on the sabbath--The cessation of the temple services had been necessarily followed by a public profanation of the Sabbath, and this had gone so far that labor was carried on in the fields, and fish brought to the markets on the sacred day. Nehemiah took the decisive step of ordering the city gates to be shut, and not to be opened, till the Sabbath was past; and in order to ensure the faithful…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Nehemiah 13
- 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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