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, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
• Joel 2:13Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
• Ps 145:8–9Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
• Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
• Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• 1 Kgs 6:13I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
• Num 14:18–19‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
• Ps 103:8–18Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
• Ps 78:42–43They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
• Rom 9:15For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
• Matt 16:9–11Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
• Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Ps 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
• Isa 55:7–9Let 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.
• Ps 106:43–46He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.
• Ps 106:7Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
• Ps 78:11They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
• 1 Kgs 8:57May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;
• Ps 106:13They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
• Eph 1:6–7to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• Num 14:3–4Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
• Ps 106:24–25Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
• Ps 130:4But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
• Heb 12:25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
• Acts 7:39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
• Prov 1:24Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
• Num 16:14Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”
• Num 14:11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
• Num 14:41Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
• 2 Pet 1:12–15Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

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