Nehemiah 5:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out everyone from house and from property who does not perform this promise. Thus may they be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:3

The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. All the people joined in the covenant.

1 Chronicles 16:36

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.” Then all the people said “Amen!” and praised the Lord.

Nehemiah 8:6

Then Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. Then they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

Psalm 119:106

I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe your righteous ordinances.

Psalm 50:14

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 76:11

Make vows to the Lord your God and perform them; let all who are around him bring gifts to the one who is awesome,

Proverbs 28:4

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

Ecclesiastes 5:5

It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not fulfill it.

Numbers 5:22

now may this water that brings the curse enter your bowels and make your womb discharge, your uterus drop!’ And the woman shall say, ‘Amen. Amen.’

Matthew 10:14

If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.

Acts 13:51

So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

Acts 18:6

When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles.”

1 Corinthians 14:16

Otherwise, if you say a blessing with the spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say the “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since the outsider does not know what you are saying?

1 Samuel 15:28

And Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this very day and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.