Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Parallel translations
- WEB neither have we obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
- BSB and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
- NKJV We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.
- NASB and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
- NLT We have not obeyed the Lord our God, for we have not followed the instructions he gave us through his servants the prophets.
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Quick answer
Daniel confesses they did not obey God's voice or walk in the laws given through the prophets. Disobedience to God's revealed will lies at the core of their guilt.
Overview
He acknowledges the failure to heed God's voice and follow His laws delivered by the prophets. The repeated emphasis on God's word shows that Israel's sin was covenant infidelity to clearly revealed commands. This highlights the goodness of God's law and the gravity of neglecting it, underscoring humanity's need for a Savior who perfectly obeys.
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Cross-references · 6
- Dan 9:6Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
- 2 Kgs 18:12Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
- Neh 9:13–17Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
- 2 Kgs 17:13–15Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
- Heb 1:1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
- Ezra 9:10–11And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
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