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Chinese Union (Simplified)

尼希米记 9:36

我 们 现 今 作 了 奴 仆 ; 至 於 你 所 赐 给 我 们 列 祖 享 受 其 上 的 土 产 , 并 美 物 之 地 , 看 哪 , 我 们 在 这 地 上 作 了 奴 仆 !

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idolatry;   Repentance;   Rulers;   Sin;   Thankfulness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prayer, Public;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Nehemiah;   Providence;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Prayer;   Synagogue;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prayer;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Reggio, Isaac Samuel (Yashar);  

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
我們今天竟成了奴僕!就是在你賜給我們列祖享用其上果實和美物之地,我們竟在這地上作了奴僕!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:48, 2 Chronicles 12:8, Ezra 9:9

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:14 - General Deuteronomy 28:33 - The fruit Ezra 9:7 - into the hand Nehemiah 1:3 - in great Jeremiah 25:18 - as it Lamentations 5:5 - labour Ezekiel 11:9 - and deliver Ezekiel 17:14 - the kingdom Joel 2:17 - that Luke 20:16 - shall give John 8:33 - and were

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, we are servants this day,.... For though they had leave to return to their land, and rebuild their city and temple, yet they were still in subjection to the kings of Persia:

and for the land thou gavest unto our fathers, to eat the fruit thereof, and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it; though the rightful owners and proprietors of it by the gift of God to their ancestors, to hold it and enjoy the good of it, and yet were obliged to pay tribute for it to the kings of Persia, all excepting priests and Levites; see Ezra 6:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. Behold, we are servants — They had no king of their own: and were under the government of the kings of Persia, to whom they paid a regular tribute.


 
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