Nehemiah 1:9 “but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then ev…”

Nehemiah 1:9

but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

American Standard Version

but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.

Geneva Bible 1599

But if ye turne vnto me, and keepe my commandements, and doe them, though your scattering were to the vttermost part of the heauen, yet will I gather you from thence, and will bring you vnto the place that I haue chosen to place my Name there.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

and ye have turned back unto Me, and kept My commands, and done them — if your outcast is in the end of the heavens, thence I gather them, and have brought them in unto the place that I have chosen to cause My name to tabernacle there.

Bible in Basic English

But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.

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Cross references

“if ye turn”

Jeremiah 29:11–14 Deuteronomy 30:2–5 Deuteronomy 4:29–31 Leviticus 26:39–42

Jeremiah 29:11–14 · BSB

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

Deuteronomy 30:2–5 · BSB

and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,

Deuteronomy 4:29–31 · BSB

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Leviticus 26:39–42 · BSB

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

“yet will I”

Jeremiah 32:37 Psalm 147:2 Isaiah 56:8 Jeremiah 12:15 Matthew 24:31 Psalm 106:47

Jeremiah 32:37 · BSB

I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.

Psalm 147:2 · BSB

The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.

Isaiah 56:8 · BSB

Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

Jeremiah 12:15 · BSB

But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

Matthew 24:31 · BSB

And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Psalm 106:47 · BSB

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.

“will bring”

Ezekiel 36:24 Jeremiah 3:14

Ezekiel 36:24 · BSB

For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.

Jeremiah 3:14 · BSB

“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

“the place”

Deuteronomy 12:5 Ezra 6:12 1 Kings 9:3 Deuteronomy 12:21

Deuteronomy 12:5 · BSB

Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

Ezra 6:12 · BSB

May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out w…

1 Kings 9:3 · BSB

And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

Deuteronomy 12:21 · BSB

If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever y…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,

10They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.

Read Nehemiah 1