“The people you rescued by your great power and strong hand are your servants.
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- WEB “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
- KJV Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
- BSB They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.
- NKJV Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand.
- NASB They are Your servants and Your people whom You redeemed by Your great power and by Your strong hand.
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Nehemiah reminds God that Israel is His own people, redeemed by His great power and strong hand. He bases his appeal on God's prior saving acts.
Overview
By calling Israel "your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed," Nehemiah recalls the exodus deliverance as grounds for present help—God does not abandon those He has bought. The language of redemption by a strong hand anchors his confidence in God's character as Savior. This pattern, pleading past redemption as the basis for present mercy, ultimately rests for the believer on the greater redemption accomplished in Christ.
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- Deut 9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
- Dan 9:15–27Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
- Exod 32:11Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
- Isa 63:16–19For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
- Exod 6:1Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”
- Isa 64:9Don’t be furious, Yahweh, and don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
- Deut 15:15You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
- Ps 74:2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
- Exod 15:13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Exod 13:9It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
- Ps 136:12With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever:
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