Nehemiah 9:15

And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
gavest	נָתַ֤תָּה na.Ta.tah	H5414	to give · verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
bread	וְ֠לֶחֶם Ve.le.chem	H3899	food (for man or beast) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
heaven	מִשָּׁמַ֜יִם mi.sha.Ma.yim	H8064	the sky (as aloft · preposition + noun, common masculine plural absolute
hunger	לִרְעָבָ֔ם lir.'a.Vam	H7458	hunger (more or less extensive) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
forth	הוֹצֵ֥אתָ ho.Tze.ta	H3318	to go (causatively · verb, hiphil perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
water	וּמַ֗יִם u.Ma.yim	H4325	water · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural absolute
rock	מִסֶּ֛לַע mi.Se.la'	H5553	a craggy rock · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
thirst	לִצְמָאָ֑ם litz.ma.'Am	H6772	thirst (literally or figuratively) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
promisedst	וַתֹּ֣אמֶר va.To.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular
in	לָבוֹא֙ la.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
possess	לָרֶ֣שֶׁת la.Re.shet	H3423	to occupy (by driving out previous tenants · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
land	הָאָ֔רֶץ ha.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
sworn	יָדְךָ֖ ya.de.Kha	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
give	לָתֵ֥ת la.Tet	H5414	to give · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

1 Corinthians 10:3-4 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
Exodus 17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the…
Deuteronomy 1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to giv…
Exodus 16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every da…
Exodus 16:14-15 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on…
Psalms 105:40-41 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
John 6:31-35 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he mig…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 9:4–end

We have here an account how the work of this fast-day was carried on. 1. The names of the ministers that were employed. They are twice named (Neh 9:4, Neh 9:5), only with some variation of the names. Either they prayed successively, according to that rule which the apostle gives (Co1 14:31, You may all prophesy one by one), or, as some think, there were eight several congregations at some distance from each other, and each had a Levite to preside in it. 2. The work itself in which they employed themselves. (1.) They prayed to God, cried to him with a loud voice (Neh 9:4), for the pardon of the sins of Israel and God's favour to them. They cried aloud, not that God might the better hear them,…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 9:6

Thou, even thou, art Lord alone, &c.--In this solemn and impressive prayer, in which they make public confession of their sins, and deprecate the judgments due to the transgressions of their fathers, they begin with a profound adoration of God, whose supreme majesty and omnipotence is acknowledged in the creation, preservation, and government of all. Then they proceed to enumerate His mercies and distinguished favors to them as a nation, from the period of the call of their great ancestor and the gracious promise intimated to him in the divinely bestowed name of Abraham, a promise which implied that he was to be the Father of the faithful, the ancestor of the Messiah, and the honored individ…

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Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 9:14

Madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath - They appear to have forgotten this first of all the commandments of God, during their sojourning in Egypt.

John Gill on Nehemiah 9:15

And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger,.... To satisfy that, meaning the manna, Exodus 16:3 and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock, for their thirst; to quench it; this was done both quickly after they came out of the land of Egypt, and a little before their entrance into the land of Canaan, see Exodus 17:6 and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them; which oath was made to them and to their fathers also, see Numbers 14:30.

Dictionary and topics

Covenant — A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a…
Prayer — Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or…
Manna · Miraculously given to Israel for food in the wilderness — Miraculously given to Israel for food in the wilderness
Prayer, Public · Exemplified: Jeshua — Exemplified: Jeshua

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Nehemiah 9:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 9:4–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 9:6

Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 9:14

John Gill on Nehemiah 9:15

Dictionary and topics

Nehemiah 9:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 9:4–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 9:6

Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 9:14

John Gill on Nehemiah 9:15

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Nehemiah 9:9-15

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Nehemiah 9:12-21

Rashi on Nehemiah 9:15