Nehemiah 9:20 “You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your…”

Nehemiah 9:20

You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

World English Bible

You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

American Standard Version

Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou gauest also thy good Spirite to instruct them, and withheldest not thy MAN from their mouth, and gauest them water for their thirst.

Darby Translation

Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Young's Literal Translation

'And Thy good Spirit Thou hast given, to cause them to act wisely; and Thy manna Thou hast not withheld from their mouth, and water Thou hast given to them for their thirst,

Bible in Basic English

And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it.

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Cross references

“gavest”

Numbers 11:17 Isaiah 63:11–14 Nehemiah 9:30 Numbers 11:25–29

Numbers 11:17 · BSB

And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourse…

Isaiah 63:11–14 · BSB

Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

Nehemiah 9:30 · BSB

You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

Numbers 11:25–29 · BSB

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so ag…

“good”

Psalm 143:10 2 Peter 1:21 Ephesians 5:9 Romans 15:30 Galatians 5:22 Galatians 5:23

Psalm 143:10 · BSB

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

2 Peter 1:21 · BSB

For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 5:9 · BSB

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Romans 15:30 · BSB

Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.

Galatians 5:22 · BSB

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:23 · BSB

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

“withheldest”

Exodus 16:15 Joshua 5:12 Exodus 16:35

Exodus 16:15 · BSB

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

Joshua 5:12 · BSB

And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.

Exodus 16:35 · BSB

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

“gavest”

John 4:10 Isaiah 48:21 Exodus 17:6 Psalm 105:41 John 4:14 John 7:37–39

John 4:10 · BSB

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

Isaiah 48:21 · BSB

They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.

Exodus 17:6 · BSB

Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Psalm 105:41 · BSB

He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

John 4:14 · BSB

But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

John 7:37–39 · BSB

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

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

In context

19You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

21For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

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