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Nehemiah 9:26

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

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ASV

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.

KJV

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

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וַיַּמְר֨וּvai.yam.Ruand they were disobedientH4784 →
וַֽיִּמְרְד֜וּvai.yim.re.Duand they rebelledH4775 →
בָּ֗ךְBakhagainst you
וַיַּשְׁלִ֤כוּvai.yash.Li.khuand they threwH7993 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
תּוֹרָֽתְךָ֙to.ra.te.Khalaw yourH8451 →
אַחֲרֵ֣י'a.cha.ReibehindH310 →
גַוָּ֔םga.Vamback theirH1458 →
וְאֶת־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853 →
נְבִיאֶ֣יךָne.vi.'Ei.khaprophets yourH5030 →
הָרָ֔גוּha.Ra.guthey killedH2026 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-whoH834 →
הֵעִ֥ידוּhe.'I.duthey had warnedH5749 →
בָ֖םvam<in> them
לַהֲשִׁיבָ֣םla.ha.shi.Vamto bring back themH7725 →
אֵלֶ֑יךָ'e.Lei.khato youH413 →
וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּvai.ya.'a.Suand they didH6213 →
נֶאָצ֖וֹתne.'a.TzotblasphemiesH5007 →
גְּדוֹלֹֽת׃ge.do.LotgreatH1419 →

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Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!1 Kings 14:9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.Jeremiah 2:30“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”Judges 2:11–12And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.Matthew 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.Nehemiah 9:18Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,Nehemiah 9:29You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.Malachi 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’Romans 11:3“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?1 Kings 19:10“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”1 Kings 18:4for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—Luke 3:20Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.Luke 20:10At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.Jeremiah 7:25From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.Jeremiah 35:14The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!Romans 10:21But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”Mark 10:5But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

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