Nehemiah 9:17

New American Bible - revised edition

They refused to obey and no longer remembered the wonders you had worked for them. They were obdurate and appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and rich in mercy; you did not forsake them.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:13

I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites and will not forsake my people Israel.

1 Kings 8:57

May the Lord, our God, be with us as he was with our ancestors and may he not forsake us nor cast us off.

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart rather than return to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Ezra 9:9

For slaves we are, but in our slavery our God has not abandoned us; rather, he has turned the good will of the kings of Persia toward us. Thus he has given us new life to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins, and has granted us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 9:31

Yet in your great mercy you did not completely destroy them and did not forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

Psalm 106:13

But they soon forgot all he had done; they had no patience for his plan.

Psalm 106:7

Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders. They did not remember your manifold mercy; they defied the Most High at the Red Sea.

Psalm 130:4

But with you is forgiveness and so you are revered.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep God’s covenant; they refused to walk according to his law.

Psalm 78:11

They forgot his deeds, the wonders that he had shown them.

Psalm 78:38

But God being compassionate forgave their sin; he did not utterly destroy them. Time and again he turned back his anger, unwilling to unleash all his rage.

Psalm 86:15

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in mercy and truth.

Psalm 86:5

Lord, you are good and forgiving, most merciful to all who call on you.

Exodus 32:9

I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are, continued the Lord to Moses.

Proverbs 1:24

‘Because I called and you refused, extended my hand and no one took notice;

Jeremiah 18:15

Yet my people have forgotten me: they offer incense in vain. They stumble off their paths, the ways of old, Traveling on bypaths, not the beaten track.

Jeremiah 19:15

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I will bring upon this city all the evil I have spoken against it, because they have become stubborn and have not obeyed my words.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.

Ezekiel 5:6

But it rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes more than the foreign lands around it; they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes.

Daniel 9:9

But to the Lord, our God, belong compassion and forgiveness, though we rebelled against him

Joel 2:13

Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God, For he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting in punishment.

Leviticus 26:44

Yet even so, even while they are in their enemies’ land, I will not reject or loathe them to the point of wiping them out, thus making void my covenant with them; for I, the Lord, am their God.

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to anger, yet great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. In stormwind and tempest he comes, and clouds are the dust at his feet;

Numbers 14:11

And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people spurn me? How long will they not trust me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

Numbers 14:41

But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the Lord’s order? This cannot succeed.

Numbers 16:14

Far from bringing us to a land flowing with milk and honey, or giving us fields and vineyards for our inheritance, will you gouge out our eyes? No, we will not go.”

Acts 7:39

“Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

Romans 9:15

For he says to Moses: “I will show mercy to whom I will, I will take pity on whom I will.”

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much more in our case if we turn away from the one who warns from heaven.

1 Samuel 12:22

For the sake of his own great name the Lord will not abandon his people, since the Lord has decided to make you his people.