29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.


In Context

26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

27 Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?

28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

30 Thus I cleansed them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

31 And for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

Nehemiah 13:29 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:29Remember them, O my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:29Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:29Remember them, my God, for they are polluters of the priesthood, and of the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:29Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:29Be mindful of them, O my God, for the redeemed of the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.