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You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/nehemiah/9.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />You sent your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not stop giving them manna from heaven or water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/nehemiah/9.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/nehemiah/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/nehemiah/9.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/nehemiah/9.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, And did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, And gave them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/nehemiah/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Instead, You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/nehemiah/9.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, Your manna You did not withhold from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/nehemiah/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“And Thou didst give Thy good Spirit to instruct them, Thy manna Thou didst not withhold from their mouth, And Thou didst give them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/nehemiah/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />You gave Your good Spirit to give them insight, Your manna You did not withhold from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/nehemiah/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“You [also] gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/nehemiah/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You sent your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/nehemiah/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You sent Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/nehemiah/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/nehemiah/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Your gentle Spirit instructed them, and you gave them manna to eat and water to drink. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/nehemiah/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/nehemiah/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />You gave them your good Spirit to teach them. You didn't keep your manna to yourself. You gave them water to quench their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/nehemiah/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />In your goodness you told them what they should do; you fed them manna and gave them water to drink. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/nehemiah/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"You gave your good Spirit to instruct them, not withholding manna from them, and providing water to quench their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/nehemiah/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/nehemiah/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/nehemiah/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/nehemiah/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/nehemiah/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />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. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/nehemiah/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And Your good Spirit You have given, "" To cause them to act wisely; And Your manna You have not withheld from their mouth, "" And water You have given to them for their thirst,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/nehemiah/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> '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,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/nehemiah/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And thy good spirit thou gavest to instruct them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and water gavest thou to them for their thirst.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/nehemiah/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/nehemiah/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And you gave them your good Spirit, so that he might teach them, and you did not withhold your manna from their mouth, and you gave them water in their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/nehemiah/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Your good spirit you bestowed on them, to give them understanding; Your manna you did not withhold from their mouths, and you gave them water in their thirst. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/nehemiah/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You gave your good spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and gave them water for their thirst.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/nehemiah/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and didst not withhold manna from their mouths, and gavest them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/nehemiah/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And your good Spirit you gave to teach them, and manna you did not restrain from their mouths, and water you gave them for their thirst.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/nehemiah/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Thou gavest also Thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not Thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/nehemiah/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them, and thou didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water in their thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZsQrw7rBvgc?start=2519" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/nehemiah/9.htm">The People Confess Their Sins</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">19</span>You 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. <span class="reftext">20</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: nā·ṯa·tā (V-Qal-Perf-2ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">You gave</a> <a href="/hebrew/2896.htm" title="2896: haṭ·ṭō·w·ḇāh (Art:: Adj-fs) -- Pleasant, agreeable, good.">Your good</a> <a href="/hebrew/7307.htm" title="7307: wə·rū·ḥă·ḵā (Conj-w:: N-csc:: 2ms) -- Breath, wind, spirit. From ruwach; wind; by resemblance breath.">Spirit</a> <a href="/hebrew/7919.htm" title="7919: lə·haś·kî·lām (Prep-l:: V-Hifil-Inf:: 3mp) -- To be, circumspect, intelligent. A primitive root; to be circumspect and hence, intelligent.">to instruct them.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">You did not</a> <a href="/hebrew/4513.htm" title="4513: mā·na‘·tā (V-Qal-Perf-2ms) -- To withhold, hold back. A primitive root; to debar from benefit or injury.">withhold</a> <a href="/hebrew/4478.htm" title="4478: ū·man·ḵā (Conj-w:: N-msc:: 2ms) -- Manna (a kind of bread). From mah; literally, a whatness, i.e. Manna.">Your manna</a> <a href="/hebrew/6310.htm" title="6310: mip·pî·hem (Prep-m:: N-msc:: 3mp) -- Mouth. From pa'ah; the mouth, whether literal or figurative; specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially according to.">from their mouths,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: nā·ṯat·tāh (V-Qal-Perf-2ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">and You gave</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- ">them</a> <a href="/hebrew/4325.htm" title="4325: ū·ma·yim (Conj-w:: N-mp) -- Waters, water. Dual of a primitive noun; water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen.">water</a> <a href="/hebrew/6772.htm" title="6772: liṣ·mā·’ām (Prep-l:: N-msc:: 3mp) -- Thirst. From tsame'; thirst.">for their thirst.</a> </span><span class="reftext">21</span>For 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.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/16-13.htm">Exodus 16:13-15</a></span><br />That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. / When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground. / 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/16-35.htm">Exodus 16:35</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/11-7.htm">Numbers 11:7-9</a></span><br />Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin. / The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil. / When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/78-23.htm">Psalm 78:23-25</a></span><br />Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens. / He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven. / Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/105-39.htm">Psalm 105:39-40</a></span><br />He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night. / They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/63-11.htm">Isaiah 63:11-14</a></span><br />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, / who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown, / who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/6-31.htm">John 6:31-35</a></span><br />Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” / Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. / For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/14-16.htm">John 14:16-17</a></span><br />And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— / the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/16-13.htm">John 16:13</a></span><br />However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/2-4.htm">Acts 2:4</a></span><br />And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/2-17.htm">Acts 2:17-18</a></span><br />‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. / Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-9.htm">Romans 8:9</a></span><br />You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-14.htm">Romans 8:14</a></span><br />For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-3.htm">1 Corinthians 10:3-4</a></span><br />They all ate the same spiritual food / and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-16.htm">Galatians 5:16</a></span><br />So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">You gave also your good spirit to instruct them, and withheld not your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.</p><p class="hdg">gavest</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/9-30.htm">Nehemiah 9:30</a></b></br> Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/11-17.htm">Numbers 11:17,25-29</a></b></br> And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which <i>is</i> upon thee, and will put <i>it</i> upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear <i>it</i> not thyself alone… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/63-11.htm">Isaiah 63:11-14</a></b></br> Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, <i>and</i> his people, <i>saying</i>, Where <i>is</i> he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where <i>is</i> he that put his holy Spirit within him? … </p><p class="hdg">good</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/143-10.htm">Psalm 143:10</a></b></br> Teach me to do thy will; for thou <i>art</i> my God: thy spirit <i>is</i> good; lead me into the land of uprightness.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/15-30.htm">Romans 15:30</a></b></br> Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in <i>your</i> prayers to God for me;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/galatians/5-22.htm">Galatians 5:22,23</a></b></br> But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, … </p><p class="hdg">withheldest</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/16-15.htm">Exodus 16:15,35</a></b></br> And when the children of Israel saw <i>it</i>, they said one to another, It <i>is</i> manna: for they wist not what it <i>was</i>. And Moses said unto them, This <i>is</i> the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joshua/5-12.htm">Joshua 5:12</a></b></br> And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.</p><p class="hdg">gavest</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/17-6.htm">Exodus 17:6</a></b></br> Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/105-41.htm">Psalm 105:41</a></b></br> He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places <i>like</i> a river.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/41-17.htm">Isaiah 41:17,18</a></b></br> <i>When</i> the poor and needy seek water, and <i>there is</i> none, <i>and</i> their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, <i>I</i> the God of Israel will not forsake them… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/nehemiah/6-13.htm">Act</a> <a href="/nehemiah/6-13.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-15.htm">Gavest</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-13.htm">Good</a> <a href="/1_samuel/12-23.htm">Instruct</a> <a href="/joshua/5-12.htm">Manna</a> <a href="/ezra/1-1.htm">Mouth</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/18-22.htm">Mouths</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-15.htm">Need</a> <a href="/ezra/1-5.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/ezra/7-12.htm">Teacher</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-15.htm">Thirst</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-15.htm">Water</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/11-23.htm">Wisely</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-34.htm">Withheld</a> <a href="/2_samuel/13-13.htm">Withhold</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/nehemiah/13-18.htm">Act</a> <a href="/nehemiah/13-26.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-22.htm">Gavest</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-25.htm">Good</a> <a href="/job/8-10.htm">Instruct</a> <a href="/psalms/78-24.htm">Manna</a> <a href="/esther/7-8.htm">Mouth</a> <a href="/job/16-10.htm">Mouths</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-21.htm">Need</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-30.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/job/36-22.htm">Teacher</a> <a href="/job/24-11.htm">Thirst</a> <a href="/nehemiah/12-37.htm">Water</a> <a href="/job/34-27.htm">Wisely</a> <a href="/job/22-7.htm">Withheld</a> <a href="/job/4-2.htm">Withhold</a><div class="vheading2">Nehemiah 9</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-1.htm">A solemn fast, and repentance of the people</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-4.htm">The Levites make a confession of God's goodness, and their wickedness</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/nehemiah/9.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/nehemiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/nehemiah/9.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them.</b><br>This phrase highlights God's provision of spiritual guidance to the Israelites. The "good Spirit" refers to the Holy Spirit, who is seen throughout Scripture as a teacher and guide (<a href="/john/14-26.htm">John 14:26</a>). In the context of Nehemiah, this reflects God's faithfulness during the Israelites' wilderness journey, as recorded in Exodus and Numbers. The Spirit's role in instruction is also seen in the wisdom literature, such as Proverbs, where divine wisdom is personified and sought after. This phrase underscores the importance of divine guidance in understanding and following God's laws, a theme prevalent in the Torah.<p><b>You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths,</b><br>Manna was the miraculous food provided by God to the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness (Exodus 16). This provision is a testament to God's faithfulness and care, ensuring His people did not go hungry despite their circumstances. Manna is often seen as a type of Christ, who referred to Himself as the "bread of life" (<a href="/john/6-31.htm">John 6:31-35</a>), drawing a parallel between the physical sustenance provided in the wilderness and the spiritual sustenance He offers. The daily provision of manna also taught the Israelites reliance on God, a lesson reiterated in the Lord's Prayer with the request for "daily bread" (<a href="/matthew/6-11.htm">Matthew 6:11</a>).<p><b>and You gave them water for their thirst.</b><br>Water, like manna, was a critical provision during the Israelites' desert wanderings. Instances such as the water from the rock at Horeb (<a href="/exodus/17-6.htm">Exodus 17:6</a>) and Kadesh (<a href="/numbers/20-11.htm">Numbers 20:11</a>) demonstrate God's miraculous provision. Water is a recurring symbol of life and purification in Scripture, and Jesus uses it metaphorically to describe the living water He offers, which quenches spiritual thirst (<a href="/john/4-10.htm">John 4:10-14</a>). This phrase emphasizes God's comprehensive care for His people, meeting both their physical and spiritual needs, and foreshadows the ultimate fulfillment of these needs in Christ.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/n/nehemiah.htm">Nehemiah</a></b><br>A Jewish leader who played a crucial role in the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls and the spiritual renewal of the Jewish people after the Babylonian exile.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a></b><br>The people of God who were delivered from Egypt and wandered in the wilderness, receiving God's provision and guidance.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness.htm">The Wilderness</a></b><br>The desert area where the Israelites wandered for 40 years, a place of testing and divine provision.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_good_spirit.htm">The Good Spirit</a></b><br>Refers to the Holy Spirit, who guided and instructed the Israelites during their journey.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/m/manna_and_water.htm">Manna and Water</a></b><br>Symbols of God's provision, representing His care and sustenance for His people in the wilderness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_holy_spirit.htm">The Role of the Holy Spirit</a></b><br>The Holy Spirit is our instructor and guide, just as He was for the Israelites. We should seek His guidance in our daily lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_faithful_provision.htm">God's Faithful Provision</a></b><br>Just as God provided manna and water, He meets our needs today. Trust in His provision, even in times of scarcity.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_sustenance.htm">Spiritual Sustenance</a></b><br>Beyond physical needs, God provides spiritual nourishment through His Word and Spirit. Prioritize spiritual growth and reliance on God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/gratitude_for_god's_gifts.htm">Gratitude for God's Gifts</a></b><br>Recognize and give thanks for the ways God provides for us, both materially and spiritually.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/dependence_on_god.htm">Dependence on God</a></b><br>The Israelites' journey reminds us of our dependence on God. In our own "wilderness" experiences, lean on His strength and provision.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_nehemiah_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Nehemiah 9</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_is_the_holy_spirit_shown_in_the_ot.htm">How is the Holy Spirit depicted in the Old Testament?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/meaning_of_'not_good_for_man_alone'.htm">What defines elemental spirits?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_numbers_2_camp_survive_sinai.htm">How could a vast encampment described in Numbers 2 feasibly survive in the Sinai Desert with limited resources? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_no_clear_evidence_of_manna's_reality.htm">Why is there no clear archaeological or historical evidence that manna was a real, sustained food source for such a large group (Exodus 16)? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/nehemiah/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(20) <span class= "bld">Thy good spirit.</span>--Probably a reference to <a href="/numbers/11-17.htm" title="And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you bear it not yourself alone.">Numbers 11:17</a>; <a href="/numbers/11-25.htm" title="And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was on him, and gave it to the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested on them, they prophesied, and did not cease.">Numbers 11:25</a>. The epithet given to the Spirit is in <a href="/psalms/143-10.htm" title="Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.">Psalm 143:10</a>. But His teaching function occurs here only, and is a remarkable anticipation of the New Testament.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/nehemiah/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 20.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Thou gavest them also thy good Spirit to instruct them</span>. The "good Spirit" of God is mentioned in <a href="/psalms/143-10.htm">Psalm 143:10</a>; and the fact of God's "instructing and teaching" men in <a href="/psalms/32-8.htm">Psalm 32:8</a>. But instruction by God's Spirit is nowhere else distinctly mentioned in the Old Testament. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">You gave</span><br /><span class="heb">נָתַ֖תָּ</span> <span class="translit">(nā·ṯa·tā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> </span><span class="str2">To give, put, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Your good</span><br /><span class="heb">הַטּוֹבָ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(haṭ·ṭō·w·ḇāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Adjective - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2896.htm">Strong's 2896: </a> </span><span class="str2">Pleasant, agreeable, good</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Spirit</span><br /><span class="heb">וְרוּחֲךָ֨</span> <span class="translit">(wə·rū·ḥă·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7307.htm">Strong's 7307: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to instruct them.</span><br /><span class="heb">לְהַשְׂכִּילָ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(lə·haś·kî·lām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7919.htm">Strong's 7919: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be, circumspect, intelligent</span><br /><br /><span class="word">You did not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹא־</span> <span class="translit">(lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">withhold</span><br /><span class="heb">מָנַ֣עְתָּ</span> <span class="translit">(mā·na‘·tā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4513.htm">Strong's 4513: </a> </span><span class="str2">To debar, from benefit, injury</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Your manna</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמַנְךָ֙</span> <span class="translit">(ū·man·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4478.htm">Strong's 4478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Manna (a kind of bread)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from their mouths,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִפִּיהֶ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(mip·pî·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6310.htm">Strong's 6310: </a> </span><span class="str2">The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and You gave</span><br /><span class="heb">נָתַ֥תָּה</span> <span class="translit">(nā·ṯat·tāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> </span><span class="str2">To give, put, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">them water</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמַ֛יִם</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ma·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4325.htm">Strong's 4325: </a> </span><span class="str2">Water, juice, urine, semen</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for their thirst.</span><br /><span class="heb">לִצְמָאָֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(liṣ·mā·’ām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6772.htm">Strong's 6772: </a> </span><span class="str2">Thirst</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/nehemiah/9-20.htm">Nehemiah 9:20 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/nehemiah/9-20.htm">OT History: Nehemiah 9:20 You gave also your good Spirit (Neh Ne) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/nehemiah/9-19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 9:19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 9:19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/nehemiah/9-21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nehemiah 9:21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 9:21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>