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.

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• Neh 12:30The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
• Neh 13:14Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.
• Neh 13:31and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
• 2 Chr 29:24Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
• 2 Chr 29:4–5He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,
• 2 Chr 29:27Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, Yahweh’s song also began, along with the trumpets and David king of Israel’s instruments.
• 2 Chr 29:30Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.
• Neh 12:10Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,
• Neh 5:19Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
• Neh 7:64–65These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
• Isa 38:3and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• Isa 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
• Ps 130:3–4If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
• 2 Kgs 23:4The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
• 1 Chr 15:12–14and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
• Ps 51:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
• Ps 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
• Deut 5:12“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
• Ps 25:6–7Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
• Ps 143:1–2A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
• Ps 130:7Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.
• Ps 132:1–5A Song of Ascents. Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
• 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• 2 Tim 4:7–8I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

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