Nehemiah 13:22

Nehemiah commanded the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates to keep the Sabbath holy, then prayed for God's mercy. It matters because safeguarding worship was paired with humble reliance on God's loving-kindness.

Cross-references · 25

• Neh 12:30After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
• Neh 13:14Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
• Neh 13:31I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.
• 2 Chr 29:24And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
• 2 Chr 29:4–5Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east side.
• 2 Chr 29:27And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
• 2 Chr 29:30Then King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the LORD in the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed their heads and worshiped.
• Neh 12:10Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, Eliashib was the father of Joiada,
• Neh 5:19Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
• Neh 7:64–65These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
• Isa 38:3saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• Isa 49:23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
• Ps 130:3–4If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
• 2 Kgs 23:4Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
• 1 Chr 15:12–14And he said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
• Ps 51:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
• Ps 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
• Deut 5:12Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
• Ps 25:6–7Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
• Ps 143:1–2A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
• Ps 130:7O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
• Ps 132:1–5A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
• 2 Cor 1:12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
• 2 Tim 4:7–8I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

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