Nehemiah 9:16
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16 “But they, our ancestors, acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks and did not obey your commandments;(A)
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Nehemiah 9:29
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29 And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law, yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments but sinned against your ordinances, by the observance of which a person shall live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
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Psalm 81:11-14
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11 “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.(A)
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.(B)
13 O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!(C)
14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.(D)
Nehemiah 9:10
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10 You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted insolently against our ancestors. You made a name for yourself that remains to this day.(A)
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Deuteronomy 31:27
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27 For I know well how rebellious and stubborn you are. If you already have been so rebellious toward the Lord while I am still alive among you, how much more after my death!(A)
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Hebrews 3:15
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15 As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”(A)
Hebrews 3:13
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13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Romans 2:5
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5 But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.(A)
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Acts 7:51
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51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.(A)
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Jeremiah 19:15
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15 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am now bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks, refusing to hear my words.(A)
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Jeremiah 2:31
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31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord![a]
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, “We are free;
we will come to you no more”?(A)
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- 2.31 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 63:10
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10 But they rebelled
and grieved his holy spirit;
therefore he became their enemy;
he himself fought against them.(A)
Isaiah 48:18
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18 O that you had paid attention to my commandments!
Then your prosperity would have been like a river
and your success like the waves of the sea;(A)
Isaiah 48:4
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4 Because I know that you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew
and your forehead brass,(A)
Proverbs 29:1
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29 One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn,
will suddenly be broken beyond healing.(A)
Psalm 106:6
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6 Both we and our ancestors have sinned;
we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.(A)
Psalm 95:8-10
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8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,(A)
9 when your ancestors tested me
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.(B)
10 For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they do not regard my ways.”(C)
Psalm 81:8
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8 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!(A)
Psalm 78:8-72
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8 and that they should not be like their ancestors,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.(A)
9 The Ephraimites, armed with[a] the bow,
turned back on the day of battle.(B)
10 They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to walk according to his law.(C)
11 They forgot what he had done
and the miracles that he had shown them.(D)
12 In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.(E)
13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it
and made the waters stand like a heap.(F)
14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud
and all night long with a fiery light.(G)
15 He split rocks open in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.(H)
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.(I)
18 They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.(J)
19 They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?(K)
20 Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out
and torrents overflowed,
can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”(L)
21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of rage;
a fire was kindled against Jacob,
his anger mounted against Israel,(M)
22 because they had no faith in God
and did not trust his saving power.(N)
23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven;(O)
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.(P)
25 Mortals ate of the bread of angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;(Q)
27 he rained flesh upon them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;(R)
28 he let them fall within their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29 And they ate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they craved.(S)
30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
while the food was still in their mouths,
31 the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed the strongest of them
and laid low the flower of Israel.(T)
32 In spite of all this they still sinned;
they did not believe in his wonders.(U)
33 So he made their days vanish like a breath
and their years in terror.(V)
34 When he killed them, they searched for him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.(W)
35 They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God their redeemer.(X)
36 But they flattered him with their mouths;
they lied to him with their tongues.(Y)
37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him;
they were not true to his covenant.
38 Yet he, being compassionate,
forgave their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
often he restrained his anger
and did not stir up all his wrath.(Z)
39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes and does not come again.(AA)
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the desert!(AB)
41 They tested God again and again
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.(AC)
42 They did not keep in mind his power
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.(AD)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them
and frogs that destroyed them.(AE)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamores with frost.(AF)
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.(AG)
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of destroying angels.(AH)
50 He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.(AI)
52 Then he led out his people like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.(AJ)
53 He led them in safety so that they were not afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.(AK)
54 And he brought them to his holy hill,
to the mountain that his right hand had won.(AL)
55 He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.(AM)
56 Yet they tested the Most High God
and rebelled against him.
They did not observe his decrees(AN)
57 but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors;
they twisted like a treacherous bow.(AO)
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
they moved him to jealousy with their idols.(AP)
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mortals,(AQ)
61 and delivered his power to captivity,
his glory to the hand of the foe.(AR)
62 He gave his people to the sword
and vented his wrath on his heritage.(AS)
63 Fire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no marriage song.(AT)
64 Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows made no lamentation.(AU)
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a warrior shouting because of wine.(AV)
66 He put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting disgrace.(AW)
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.(AX)
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.(AY)
70 He chose his servant David
and took him from the sheepfolds;(AZ)
71 from tending the nursing ewes he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel, his inheritance.(BA)
72 With upright heart he tended them
and guided them with skillful hand.(BB)
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- 78.9 Heb armed with shooting
2 Chronicles 36:13
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13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.(A)
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2 Chronicles 30:8
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8 Do not now be stiff-necked as your ancestors were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger may turn away from you.(A)
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2 Kings 17:14
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14 They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.(A)
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Deuteronomy 32:15
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15 Jacob ate his fill;[a]
Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.
You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!
He abandoned God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.(A)
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Deuteronomy 9:27
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27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; pay no attention to the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin,
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Deuteronomy 9:23-24
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23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and occupy the land that I have given you,’ you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God, neither trusting him nor obeying him. 24 You have been rebellious against the Lord as long as he has[a] known you.(A)
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