Bible Strands
Nehemiah 9:2
Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Israelites gather on the twenty-fourth day of the month, fasting and wearing sackcloth with dust on their heads, preparing for the public reading of the Law.
The words — וַ/יִּבָּֽדְלוּ (va/yi.badelu) denotes a deliberate separation or separation, and וַ/יִּתְוַדּוּ (va/yitvadu) indicates a mutual confession or acknowledgment of guilt.
The thread — This act of separating from foreign influence and confessing ancestral sin appears in Nehemiah 13:3, Ezra 10:11, and Daniel 9:3.
Why it lands — The text records a collective renunciation of foreign alliances and a public acknowledgment of inherited guilt before the reading of the Law.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Cross-references
- Nehemiah 13:3 As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.
- Ezra 10:11 Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives.”
- Daniel 9:3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- Nehemiah 13:30 Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.
- Daniel 9:20 While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
- Ezra 9:2 Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”
- Hosea 5:7 They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.
- Psalms 144:11 Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
- 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
- Leviticus 26:39 Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.