and that they should not be (A)like their fathers,
    (B)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation (C)whose heart was not steadfast,
    whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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37 Their (A)heart was not (B)steadfast toward him;
    they were not faithful to his covenant.

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And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, (A)it is a stiff-necked people.

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27 For I know how rebellious and (A)stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, (B)you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death!

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18 “And I said to (A)their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk (B)in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, (C)nor defile yourselves with their idols.

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14 But they would not listen, (A)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

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51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you.

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(A)Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

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(A)Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; (B)but I will not go up among you, (C)lest I consume you on the way, for you are a (D)stiff-necked people.”

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23 When he came and saw (A)the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord (B)with steadfast purpose,

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31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are (A)sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 (B)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, (C)you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to (D)hell?

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(A)But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. (B)None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.

“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them (C)and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to (A)nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. (B)They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. The descendants also are (C)impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’ And (D)whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are (E)a rebellious house) (F)they will know that a prophet has been among them. And you, son of man, (G)be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, (H)though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on (I)scorpions.[a] Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. And you shall speak my words to them, (J)whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house.

“But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. (K)Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and (L)eat what I give you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 2:6 Or on scorpion plants

(A)For they are a rebellious people,
    lying children,
children unwilling to hear
    the instruction of the Lord;

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Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
    did not consider your wondrous works;
they (A)did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
    but (B)rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

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God (A)settles the solitary in a home;
    he (B)leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
    but (C)the rebellious dwell in (D)a parched land.

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13 “If you (A)prepare your heart,
    you will (B)stretch out your hands toward him.

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19 (A)who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 30:19 Hebrew not according to the cleanness of holiness

33 (A)The high places, however, were not taken away; (B)the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.

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Nevertheless, (A)some good is found in you, for (B)you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have (C)set your heart to seek God.”

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14 And he did evil, (A)for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.

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But (A)my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. And Moses swore on that day, saying, (B)‘Surely the land (C)on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’

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24 (A)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

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The Golden Calf

13 (A)“Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is (B)a stubborn people.

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“Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are (A)a stubborn people. Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. (B)From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

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