尼希米记 9:25

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們奪取了堅固的城、肥沃的土地，獲得了滿載各樣財寶的房屋、挖好的水井、葡萄園、橄欖園和很多果樹；他們吃得飽足，身體發胖，因你的大恩生活安逸快樂。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 得 了 坚 固 的 城 邑 、 肥 美 的 地 土 、 充 满 各 样 美 物 的 房 屋 、 凿 成 的 水 井 、 葡 萄 园 、 橄 榄 园 ， 并 许 多 果 木 树 。 他 们 就 吃 而 得 饱 ， 身 体 肥 胖 ， 因 你 的 大 恩 ， 心 中 快 乐 。

Contextual Overview

⁴ These Levites were standing on the stairs: Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani. They called out to the Lord their God with loud voices. ⁵ Then these Levites spoke: Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah. They said, "Stand up and praise the Lord your God, who lives forever and ever." "Blessed be your wonderful name. It is more wonderful than all blessing and praise. ⁶ You are the only Lord . You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, with all the stars. You made the earth and everything on it, the seas and everything in them; you give life to everything. The heavenly army worships you. ⁷ "You are the Lord , the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur in Babylonia and named him Abraham. ⁸ You found him faithful to you, so you made an agreement with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites. You have kept your promise, because you do what is right. ⁹ "You saw our ancestors suffering in Egypt and heard them cry out at the Red Sea. ¹⁰ You did signs and miracles against the king of Egypt, and against all his officers and all his people, because you knew how proud they were. You became as famous as you are today. ¹¹ You divided the sea in front of our ancestors; they walked through on dry ground. But you threw the people chasing them into the deep water, like a stone thrown into mighty waters. ¹² You led our ancestors with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire at night. It lit the way they were supposed to go. ¹³ You came down to Mount Sinai and spoke from heaven to our ancestors. You gave them fair rules and true teachings, good orders and commands.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

strong: Numbers 13:27, Numbers 13:28, Deuteronomy 3:5, Deuteronomy 6:10-12, Deuteronomy 9:1-3

a fat land: Nehemiah 9:35, Deuteronomy 8:7-10, Deuteronomy 32:13, Ezekiel 20:6

wells: or, cisterns

fruit trees: Heb. trees of food

did eat: Deuteronomy 32:15, Psalms 65:11, Isaiah 6:10, Jeremiah 5:27, Jeremiah 5:28, Hosea 13:6

and became fat: They became effeminate, fell under the power of luxury, got totally corrupted in their manners, sinned against all the mercies of God, and then were destroyed by His judgments.

delighted: 1 Kings 8:66, Jeremiah 31:14, Hosea 3:5, Romans 2:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:19 - all my goodness Numbers 13:20 - whether it be Deuteronomy 31:20 - eaten Joshua 24:11 - the men 2 Chronicles 6:41 - thy saints Psalms 78:56 - General Proverbs 30:9 - I be full Isaiah 63:7 - the great goodness Jeremiah 2:7 - brought Hosea 2:7 - for Joel 2:26 - ye shall John 6:12 - they Acts 14:17 - filling James 5:1 - ye

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the snake, "Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:11
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.

Genesis 9:7
"As for you, Noah, I want you and your family to have many children, to grow in number on the earth, and to become many."

Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons,

Genesis 9:20
Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.

Genesis 9:21
When he drank wine made from his grapes, he became drunk and lay naked in his tent.

Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, looked at his naked father and told his brothers outside.

Genesis 9:28
After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

Genesis 49:7
May their anger be cursed, because it is too violent. May their violence be cursed, because it is too cruel. I will divide them up among the tribes of Jacob and scatter them through all the tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 27:16
"Anyone will be cursed who dishonors his father or mother." Then all the people will say, "Amen!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they took strong cities,.... Such as, in an hyperbolical way, are said to be walled up to heaven, Deuteronomy 1:28

and a fat land; of a good and fruitful soil, abounding with all good things, Deuteronomy 8:7

and possessed houses full of all goods; ready built and furnished for them, both with good provisions and good furniture:

wells digged; to supply them with water:

vineyards, and olive yards, and fruit trees in abundance; which they planted not:

and they did eat, and were filled, and became fat; in body, though in mind became wanton and wicked; they made their hearts fat, or stupid, as Aben Ezra interprets it, see Deuteronomy 32:15

and delighted themselves in thy great goodness; not in praising the Lord for it, and using it to his honour and glory, but indulged themselves to luxury and intemperance; though it may be understood of a lawful pleasure in the enjoyment of the great affluence they were brought into, which last agrees with what follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Became fat. - i. e., “grew proud,” or “wanton” - a phrase only occurring here, in the margin reference, and in Jeremiah 5:28.

Delighted themselves - Rather, “luxuriated.” The word in the original does not occur elsewhere; but cognate terms make the sense clear.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. Became fat, and delighted themselves — They became effeminate, fell under the power of luxury, got totally corrupted in their manners, sinned against all the mercies of God, and then were destroyed by his judgments. We have an old nervous saying, "War begets poverty, poverty begets peace, peace begets affluence, affluence begets luxury and corruption of manners; and hence civil broils, foreign wars, and desolations." A sensible Roman historian has said the same: "Imperium facile iis artibus retinetur, quibus initio partum est: verum ubi pro LABORE, DESIDIA; pro continentia et aequitate, LIBIDO atque SUPERBIA invasere: fortuna simul cum moribus IMMUTATUR."