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Nehemiah 13:18

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Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

KJV

Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

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This verse in Nehemiah 13

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Did not your fathers thus,.... Profane the sabbath in like manner: and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon our city? suffered them to be carried captive into a strange land, and their city destroyed for their sins, and for this of sabbath breaking among the rest, see Jer 17:21, yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath; additional judgments to those that had been already upon them for the same evil with others.

This site's exposition

I rebuked the nobles of Judah

on Nehemiah 13:17-18

Nehemiah confronts the nobles, asking "What is this evil you are doing" in profaning the Sabbath. "Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city?" Sabbath breaking now is "rekindling His wrath against Israel."

This site's exposition

Did not your forefathers do the same things

Barnes traces the charge to Jeremiah 17:21-27, where the prophet warned that burdens carried through the gates on the Sabbath would bring fire on Jerusalem. The fathers did it, and the city burned. Gill reads the charge as the same sin repeated.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), and shows them that sabbath breaking was one of the sins for which God had brought judgments upon them, and that if they did not take warning, but returned to the same sins again, they had reason to expect further judgments: You bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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 execution of this order, he stationed some of his own servants as guards, to prevent the introduction of any commodities on that day.

The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הֲל֨וֹא¿ not

    halo'H3808 →5168 times

  • כֹ֤הthus

    khohH3541 →

  • עָשׂוּ֙did they do

    ʾasuH6213 →2628 times

  • אֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םancestors your

    ʾavoteikhemH1 →1212 times

  • וַיָּבֵ֨אand he brought

    vaiyave'H935 →2568 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֜ינוּGod our

    ʾeloheinuH430 →2601 times

  • עָלֵ֗ינוּon us

    ʾaleinuH5921 →5755 times

  • אֵ֚ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָרָעָ֣הthe trouble

    haraahH7451 →662 times

  • הַזֹּ֔את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • וְעַ֖לand on

    vealH5921 →5755 times

  • הָעִ֣ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • הַזֹּ֑את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • וְאַתֶּ֞םand you

    veatemH859 →1094 times

  • מוֹסִיפִ֤ים[are] increasing

    mosifimH3254 →

  • חָרוֹן֙anger

    charonH2740 →

  • עַל־toward

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לְחַלֵּ֖לby profaning

    lechalelH2490 →143 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃ פthe sabbath

    hashabatH7676 →110 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

14 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Jeremiah 17:21–23This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.4 worksEzekiel 31:14This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’3 worksJeremiah 44:23Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD, and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”3 worksLeviticus 26:28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.2 worksJeremiah 44:9Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?2 worksEzra 9:13–15After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),2 works
The other 8 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 32:14Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.2 worksLeviticus 26:18And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.2 worksEzekiel 23:8She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.2 worksJoshua 22:17–18Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.2 worksEzekiel 23:26They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.2 worksJeremiah 17:27But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”2 worksZechariah 1:4–6Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.2 worksJeremiah 44:22So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 26:28

    then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 21:5

      And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.

    • Isaiah 59:18

      So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.

    • Ezekiel 8:18

      Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

    • Ezekiel 5:13

      And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD,…

    • Ezekiel 5:15

      So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD,…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 44:9

    Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 7:17–18

      Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Through

    Numbers 32:14

    Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

    it leads to

    • Luke 11:48

      So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

    • Acts 7:51–52

      You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Where this verse is studied

About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Nehemiah: the study guide →Read Nehemiah 13 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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