Nehemiah 9:16
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16 “But(A) they and our fathers acted [a]proudly,
(B)Hardened[b] their necks,
And did not heed Your commandments.
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- Nehemiah 9:16 presumptuously
- Nehemiah 9:16 Stiffened their necks, became stubborn
Nehemiah 9:29
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29 And [a]testified against them,
That You might bring them back to Your law.
Yet they acted [b]proudly,
And did not heed Your commandments,
But sinned against Your judgments,
(A)‘Which if a man does, he shall live by them.’
And they shrugged their shoulders,
[c]Stiffened their necks,
And would not hear.
Footnotes
- Nehemiah 9:29 admonished them
- Nehemiah 9:29 presumptuously
- Nehemiah 9:29 Became stubborn
Psalm 81:11-14
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11 “But My people would not heed My voice,
And Israel would have (A)none of Me.
12 (B)So I gave them over to [a]their own stubborn heart,
To walk in their own counsels.
13 “Oh,(C) that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
14 I would soon subdue their enemies,
And turn My hand against their adversaries.
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- Psalm 81:12 the dictates of their heart
Nehemiah 9:10
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10 You (A)showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
Against all his servants,
And against all the people of his land.
For You knew that they (B)acted [a]proudly against them.
So You (C)made a name for Yourself, as it is this day.
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- Nehemiah 9:10 presumptuously or insolently
Deuteronomy 31:27
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27 (A)for I know your rebellion and your (B)stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord, then how much more after my death?
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Hebrews 3:15
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15 while it is said:
(A)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
Hebrews 3:13
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13 but [a]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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- Hebrews 3:13 encourage
Romans 2:5
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5 But in accordance with your hardness and your [a]impenitent heart (A)you are [b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
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- Romans 2:5 unrepentant
- Romans 2:5 storing
Acts 7:51
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Israel Resists the Holy Spirit
51 “You (A)stiff-necked[a] and (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
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- Acts 7:51 stubborn
Jeremiah 19:15
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15 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the doom that I have pronounced against it, because (A)they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear My words.’ ”
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Jeremiah 2:31
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31 “O generation, see the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
Or a land of darkness?
Why do My people say, ‘We [a]are lords;
(A)We will come no more to You’?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:31 have dominion
Isaiah 63:10
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10 But they (A)rebelled and (B)grieved His Holy Spirit;
(C)So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,
And He fought against them.
Isaiah 48:18
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18 (A)Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
(B)Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Isaiah 48:4
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4 Because I knew that you were [a]obstinate,
And (A)your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,
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- Isaiah 48:4 Heb. hard
Proverbs 29:1
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Happy Is He Who Keeps the Law
29 He(A) who is often rebuked, and hardens his neck,
Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Psalm 106:6
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6 (A)We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.
Psalm 95:8-10
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8 “Do not harden your hearts, as in the [a]rebellion,
(A)As in the day of [b]trial in the wilderness,
9 When (B)your fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though they (C)saw My work.
10 For (D)forty years I was [c]grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’
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- Psalm 95:8 Or Meribah, lit. Strife, Contention
- Psalm 95:8 Or Massah, lit. Trial, Testing
- Psalm 95:10 disgusted
Psalm 81:8
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8 “Hear,(A) O My people, and I will admonish you!
O Israel, if you will listen to Me!
Psalm 78:8-72
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8 And (A)may not be like their fathers,
(B)A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation (C)that did not [a]set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and [b]carrying bows,
Turned back in the day of battle.
10 (D)They did not keep the covenant of God;
They refused to walk in His law,
11 And (E)forgot His works
And His wonders that He had shown them.
12 (F)Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers,
In the land of Egypt, (G)in the field of Zoan.
13 (H)He divided the sea and caused them to pass through;
And (I)He made the waters stand up like a heap.
14 (J)In the daytime also He led them with the cloud,
And all the night with a light of fire.
15 (K)He split the rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink in abundance like the depths.
16 He also brought (L)streams out of the rock,
And caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 But they sinned even more against Him
By (M)rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.
18 And (N)they tested God in their heart
By asking for the food of their fancy.
19 (O)Yes, they spoke against God:
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 (P)Behold, He struck the rock,
So that the waters gushed out,
And the streams overflowed.
Can He give bread also?
Can He provide meat for His people?”
21 Therefore the Lord heard this and (Q)was furious;
So a fire was kindled against Jacob,
And anger also came up against Israel,
22 Because they (R)did not believe in God,
And did not trust in His salvation.
23 Yet He had commanded the clouds above,
(S)And opened the doors of heaven,
24 (T)Had rained down manna on them to eat,
And given them of the [c]bread of (U)heaven.
25 Men ate angels’ food;
He sent them food to [d]the full.
26 (V)He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by His power He brought in the south wind.
27 He also rained meat on them like the dust,
Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;
28 And He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
All around their dwellings.
29 (W)So they ate and were well filled,
For He gave them their own desire.
30 They were not [e]deprived of their craving;
But (X)while their food was still in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came against them,
And slew the stoutest of them,
And struck down the choice men of Israel.
32 In spite of this (Y)they still sinned,
And (Z)did not believe in His wondrous works.
33 (AA)Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
And their years in fear.
34 (AB)When He slew them, then they sought Him;
And they returned and sought earnestly for God.
35 Then they remembered that (AC)God was their rock,
And the Most High God (AD)their Redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they (AE)flattered Him with their mouth,
And they lied to Him with their tongue;
37 For their heart was not steadfast with Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
38 (AF)But He, being full of (AG)compassion, forgave their iniquity,
And did not destroy them.
Yes, many a time (AH)He turned His anger away,
And (AI)did not stir up all His wrath;
39 For (AJ)He remembered (AK)that they were but flesh,
(AL)A breath that passes away and does not come again.
40 How often they (AM)provoked[f] Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!
41 Yes, (AN)again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember His [g]power:
The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,
43 When He worked His signs in Egypt,
And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
44 (AO)Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.
45 (AP)He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And (AQ)frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labor to the (AR)locust.
47 (AS)He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycamore trees with frost.
48 He also gave up their (AT)cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to fiery [h]lightning.
49 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
By sending angels of destruction among them.
50 He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave [i]their life over to the plague,
51 And destroyed all the (AU)firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 But He (AV)made His own people go forth like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
53 And He (AW)led them on safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea (AX)overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And He brought them to His (AY)holy border,
This mountain (AZ)which His right hand had acquired.
55 (BA)He also drove out the nations before them,
(BB)Allotted them an inheritance by [j]survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
56 (BC)Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God,
And did not keep His testimonies,
57 But (BD)turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were turned aside (BE)like a deceitful bow.
58 (BF)For they provoked Him to anger with their (BG)high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
59 When God heard this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred Israel,
60 (BH)So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
The tent He had placed among men,
61 (BI)And delivered His strength into captivity,
And His glory into the enemy’s hand.
62 (BJ)He also gave His people over to the sword,
And was furious with His inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men,
And (BK)their maidens were not given in marriage.
64 (BL)Their priests fell by the sword,
And (BM)their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
(BN)Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
66 And (BO)He beat back His enemies;
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion (BP)which He loved.
69 And He built His (BQ)sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has established forever.
70 (BR)He also chose David His servant,
And took him from the sheepfolds;
71 From following (BS)the ewes that had young He brought him,
(BT)To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.
72 So he shepherded them according to the (BU)integrity of his heart,
And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
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- Psalm 78:8 Lit. prepare its heart
- Psalm 78:9 Lit. bow shooters
- Psalm 78:24 Lit. grain
- Psalm 78:25 satiation
- Psalm 78:30 Lit. separated
- Psalm 78:40 rebelled against Him
- Psalm 78:42 Lit. hand
- Psalm 78:48 lightning bolts
- Psalm 78:50 Or their beasts
- Psalm 78:55 surveyed measurement, lit. measuring cord
2 Chronicles 36:13
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13 And he also (A)rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by God; but he (B)stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord God of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 30:8
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8 Now do not be (A)stiff-necked,[a] as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, (B)that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.
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- 2 Chronicles 30:8 Rebellious
2 Kings 17:14
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14 Nevertheless they would not hear, but (A)stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who (B)did not believe in the Lord their God.
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Deuteronomy 32:15
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15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
(A)You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are obese!
Then he (B)forsook God who (C)made him,
And scornfully esteemed the (D)Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 9:27
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27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,
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Deuteronomy 9:23-24
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23 Likewise, (A)when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and (B)you did not believe Him nor obey His voice. 24 (C)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
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