Nehemiah 9:6

God alone is Yahweh, Creator and sustainer of heaven, earth, seas, and all their hosts. It matters because the prayer grounds confession in God's sovereign, sole deity.

Cross-references · 32

• Isa 37:16O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
• Gen 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
• Rev 4:11Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
• Deut 10:14Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
• Deut 6:4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
• Gen 2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
• Jer 10:11–12Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
• Isa 44:6Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
• Isa 44:8Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
• 2 Kgs 19:15And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
• Isa 43:10Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
• Ps 86:10For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
• Rev 5:11–13And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
• Rev 14:7Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
• Ps 36:6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
• Col 1:15–17Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
• 1 Kgs 8:27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
• Heb 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Isa 37:20Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
• 2 Kgs 19:19Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
• Isa 6:2–3Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
• Ps 148:2–4Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
• Mark 12:29–30And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
• Ezek 20:11And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
• Ps 103:21Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
• Heb 1:6And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
• Ps 136:5–9To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
• Ps 146:6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
• Ps 33:6By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
• 1 Kgs 22:19And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
• John 10:30I and my Father are one.
• Gen 32:2And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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