Nehemiah 13:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Then I contended with the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Then I reproved the nobles of Judah and said, What evil thing is this that you do–profaning the Sabbath day?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ So I scolded the officials of Judah: “What is this evil thing that you are doing?” I asked. “You are making the Sabbath impure!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And I put the nobles of Judah under oath, and I said to them: "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day?

Nehemiah 13:17 Cross References

Nehemiah 13:11

So I contended with the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.

Nehemiah 13:16

Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of merchandise and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 13:25

And I contended with them and cursed them and beat some of the men and pulled out their hair, and I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

Nehemiah 5:7

After thinking it over, I contended with the nobles and the officials; I said to them, “You are all taking interest from your own people.” And I called a great assembly to deal with them

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law struggle against them.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to the rich and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not observe my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live, and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make an end of them.

Leviticus 19:17

“You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself.

Micah 3:1

And I said: Listen, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Should you not know justice?—

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob and chiefs of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,