Nehemiah 9:26

New American Bible - revised edition

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:9

You have done more evil than all who were before you: you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke me; but me you have cast behind your back.

1 Kings 18:13

Have you not been told, my lord, what I did when Jezebel was murdering the prophets of the Lord—that I hid a hundred of the prophets of the Lord, fifty each in caves, and supplied them with food and water?

1 Kings 18:4

When Jezebel was slaughtering the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them away by fifties in caves, and supplied them with food and water.

1 Kings 19:10

He answered: “I have been most zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, but the Israelites have forsaken your covenant. They have destroyed your altars and murdered your prophets by the sword. I alone remain, and they seek to take my life.”

2 Kings 21:10

Then the Lord spoke through his servants the prophets:

2 Kings 21:11

“Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has practiced these abominations, and has done greater evil than all that was done by the Amorites before him, and has led Judah into sin by his idols,

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the Lord’s anger against his people blazed up beyond remedy.

Nehemiah 9:18

Though they made for themselves a molten calf, and proclaimed, ‘Here is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ and were guilty of great insults,

Nehemiah 9:29

You bore witness against them, to bring them back to your law. But they were insolent and would not obey your commandments; They sinned against your ordinances, which give life to those who keep them. They turned stubborn backs, stiffened their necks, and would not obey.

Nehemiah 9:30

You were patient with them for many years, bearing witness against them through your spirit, by means of your prophets; Still they would not listen. Therefore you delivered them into the power of the peoples of the lands.

Psalm 50:17

You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you!

Jeremiah 16:11

you shall answer them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me—oracle of the Lord—and followed other gods that they served and worshiped; but me they have forsaken, and my law they did not keep.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into the garden land to eat its fine fruits, But you entered and defiled my land, you turned my heritage into an abomination.

Jeremiah 32:23

They went in and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice. They did not live by your law; they did not do anything you commanded them to do. Then you made all this evil fall upon them.

Jeremiah 42:19

The Lord has spoken to you, remnant of Judah. Do not go to Egypt! Mark well that I am warning you this day.

Lamentations 3:42

We have rebelled and been obstinate; you have not forgiven us.

Ezekiel 20:21

But their children rebelled against me: they did not follow my statutes or keep my ordinances that bring life to those who observe them; my sabbaths they desecrated. Then I considered pouring out my fury on them, spending my anger against them in the wilderness;

Matthew 21:35

But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

Deuteronomy 32:14

Butter from cows and milk from sheep, with the best of lambs; Bashan bulls and goats, with the cream of finest wheat; and the foaming blood of grapes you drank.

Deuteronomy 32:15

So Jacob ate and was satisfied, Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you became fat and gross and gorged. They forsook the God who made them and scorned the Rock of their salvation.

Judges 10:6

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, serving the Baals and Ashtarts, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. Since they had abandoned the Lord and would not serve him,