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Nehemiah 1:9

but 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.’

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ASV

but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.

KJV

But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְשַׁבְתֶּ֣םve.shav.Temand you will turn backH7725 →
אֵלַ֔י'e.Laito meH413 →
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙u.she.mar.Temand you will keepH8104 →
מִצְוֹתַ֔יmitz.vo.Taicommandments myH4687 →
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖םva.'a.si.Temand you will observeH6213 →
אֹתָ֑ם'o.Tam<obj.> themH853 →
אִם־'im-ifH518 →
יִהְיֶ֨הyih.Yehit will beH1961 →
נִֽדַּחֲכֶ֜םni.da.cha.Khembanished [one] yourH5080 →
בִּקְצֵ֤הbik.Tzehat [the] end ofH7097 →
הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ha.sha.Ma.yimthe heavensH8064 →
מִשָּׁ֣םmi.Shamfrom thereH8033 →
אֲקַבְּצֵ֔ם'a.ka.be.TzemI will gather themH6908 →
וַהֲבִֽיאוֹתִים֙va.ha.vo.'o.timand I will bring themH935 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
הַמָּק֔וֹםha.ma.Komthe placeH4725 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhereH834 →
בָּחַ֔רְתִּיba.Char.tiI have chosenH977 →
לְשַׁכֵּ֥ןle.sha.Kento cause to dwellH7931 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
שְׁמִ֖יshe.Miname myH8034 →
שָֽׁם׃ShamthereH8033 →

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Jeremiah 29:11–14For 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.Deuteronomy 30:2–5and 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,Deuteronomy 4:29–31But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.Deuteronomy 30:4Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.Jeremiah 32:37I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.Deuteronomy 4:29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.Leviticus 26:39–42Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.Deuteronomy 30:2and 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,Zechariah 10:9Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.Exodus 20:24You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.Ezra 6:12May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.Jeremiah 12:15But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.Matthew 24:31And 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.Deuteronomy 12:5Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.Isaiah 56:8Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”Psalms 147:2The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.Isaiah 27:12In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.Isaiah 11:12He 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.

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