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 37:16“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
• Gen 1:1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
• Rev 4:11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
• Deut 10:14Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
• Deut 6:4Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
• Gen 2:1The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.
• Jer 10:11–12“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
• Isa 44:6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
• Isa 44:8Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”
• 2 Kgs 19:15Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
• Isa 43:10“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.
• Ps 86:10For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
• Rev 5:11–13I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
• Rev 14:7He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”
• Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
• Col 1:15–17who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
• 1 Kgs 8:27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
• Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Isa 37:20Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
• 2 Kgs 19:19Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”
• Isa 6:2–3Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
• Ps 148:2–4Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army!
• Mark 12:29–30Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:
• Ezek 20:11I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.
• Ps 103:21Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
• Heb 1:6When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”
• Ps 136:5–9To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever:
• Ps 146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
• Ps 33:6By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
• 1 Kgs 22:19Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
• John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
• Gen 32:2When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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