Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to obey and even longed to return to Egypt, yet God remained gracious, merciful, and slow to anger. It matters because God's patient mercy outlasts human rebellion.

Cross-references · 30

• Ps 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
• Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
• Ps 145:8–9The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
• Ps 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
• Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
• 1 Kgs 6:13And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
• Num 14:18–19‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
• Ps 103:8–18The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
• Ps 78:42–43They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
• Rom 9:15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
• Matt 16:9–11Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
• Exod 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
• Ps 78:38And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
• Isa 55:7–9Let 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.
• Ps 106:43–46Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
• Ps 106:7Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
• Ps 78:11They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
• 1 Kgs 8:57May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us nor forsake us.
• Ps 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
• Eph 1:6–7to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
• Num 14:3–4Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
• Ps 106:24–25They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
• Ps 130:4But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.
• Heb 12:25See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?
• Acts 7:39But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
• Prov 1:24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
• Num 16:14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”
• Num 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
• Num 14:41But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!
• 2 Pet 1:12–15Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.

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