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title: Nehemiah 9:6
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markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/nehemiah-9-6.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Nehemiah 9:6
testament: OT
section: History
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
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# Nehemiah 9:6

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

## NWT Wording of the Key Phrase

- NWT (2013 revision): "You alone are Jehovah; you made the heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens and all their army, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. And you preserve all of them alive, and the army of the heavens are bowing down to you."

## JW Usage

The Watchtower reads Nehemiah 9:6 as a confession of Jehovah's unique creatorship — Jehovah alone made the heavens and the earth, and the angels worship him. The verse functions in JW publications as a reaffirmation of strict monotheism: Jehovah is the only God, and any other being credited with creation must therefore be his agent or instrument, not God himself. The verse is invoked alongside Isaiah 44:24 ("by myself") to insist that the Son's role in creation must be subordinate.

## Protestant Usage

Pair Nehemiah 9:6 with Isaiah 44:24 (Jehovah created "alone, by myself") and then with Hebrews 1:10 (the Father addresses the Son: "you laid the foundations of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of your hands"). If Jehovah created alone, and Hebrews 1:10 attributes the creation of the heavens to the Son in language Psalm 102:25 originally addressed to Jehovah, then the Son is included in who Jehovah is. Pair also with Colossians 1:16 ("all things have been created through him and for him") and 1 Corinthians 8:6 ("one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are"). Three texts attribute creation to the Son in language reserved for Jehovah — the same Jehovah Nehemiah 9:6 says created "alone." The two-tier "Jehovah created through Michael" reading collapses against this set of texts.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Jesus' Eternality](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/psalm102-hebrews1.md) — Psalm 102 → Hebrews 1 [Deity of Christ]
- [Colossians 1 — Inserted 'Other'](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/colossians1-other.md) — The NWT adds a word that changes everything [NWT Translation]