"Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, {If} ye transgress, I will scatter y…" — Nehemiah 1:8

Nehemiah 1:8 · KJV

“Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, {If} ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:”

— Nehemiah 1:8

Verse 7

We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

Verse 9

But {if} ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, {yet} will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

Nehemiah 1 — Context

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, {If} ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

Now these {are} thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:64

And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, {even} wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 4:25-27

When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt {yourselves}, and make a graven image, {or} the likeness of any {thing}, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

Leviticus 26:33-46

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

1 Kings 9:6-7

{But} if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments {and} my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

Deuteronomy 32:26-28

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Luke 1:72

To perform the mercy {promised} to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

Psalms 119:49

ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.