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 thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
• Joel 2:13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
• Ps 145:8–9The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
• Ps 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
• Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
• 1 Kgs 6:13And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
• Num 14:18–19The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
• Ps 103:8–18The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
• Ps 78:42–43They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
• Rom 9:15For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
• Matt 16:9–11Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
• Exod 34:6–7And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
• Ps 78:38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
• Isa 55:7–9Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Ps 106:43–46Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
• Ps 106:7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
• Ps 78:11And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
• 1 Kgs 8:57The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
• Ps 106:13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
• Eph 1:6–7To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
• Num 14:3–4And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
• Ps 106:24–25Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
• Ps 130:4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
• Heb 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
• Acts 7:39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
• Prov 1:24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
• Num 16:14Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
• Num 14:11And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
• Num 14:41And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
• 2 Pet 1:12–15Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

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