12 Yes, they made their (A)hearts like flint, (B)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. (C)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

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19 Then (A)I will give them one heart, and I will put (B)a new spirit within [a]them, and take (C)the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,

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  1. Ezekiel 11:19 Lit. you (pl.)

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.
30 Yet for many years You had patience with them,
And [d]testified (B)against them by Your Spirit (C)in Your prophets.
Yet they would not listen;
(D)Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:29 admonished them
  2. Nehemiah 9:29 presumptuously
  3. Nehemiah 9:29 Became stubborn
  4. Nehemiah 9:30 admonished or warned them

16 But (A)they mocked the messengers of God, (B)despised His words, and (C)scoffed at His prophets, until the (D)wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

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26 I will give you a (A)new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

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27 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.” ’

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10 and with all unrighteous deception among (A)those who perish, because they did not receive (B)the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And (C)for this reason God will send them strong delusion, (D)that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but (E)had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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12 so that

(A)‘Seeing they may see and not perceive,
And hearing they may hear and not understand;
Lest they should turn,
And their sins be forgiven them.’

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15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears (A)are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have (B)closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I [a]should (C)heal them.’

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  1. Matthew 13:15 NU, M would

11 Yes, (A)all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the (B)Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has (C)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; (D)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

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But the house of Israel will not listen to you, (A)because they will not listen to Me; (B)for all the house of Israel are [a]impudent and hard-hearted. Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. (C)Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; (D)do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

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  1. Ezekiel 3:7 Lit. strong of forehead

(A)For they are [a]impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’

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  1. Ezekiel 2:4 Lit. stiff-faced and hard-hearted sons

10 “Make (A)the heart of this people dull,
And their ears heavy,
And shut their eyes;
(B)Lest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart,
And return and be healed.”

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21 for (A)prophecy never came by the will of man, (B)but [a]holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

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  1. 2 Peter 1:21 NU men spoke from God

11 searching what, or what manner of time, (A)the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. 12 To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to [a]us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which (B)angels desire to look into.

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  1. 1 Peter 1:12 NU, M you

15 (A)who killed both the Lord Jesus and (B)their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God (C)and are [a]contrary to all men, 16 (D)forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always (E)to fill up the measure of their sins; (F)but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 hostile

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. 52 (C)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of (D)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

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  1. Acts 7:51 stubborn

19 And this is the condemnation, (A)that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For (B)everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

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12 Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

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Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the (A)former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and (B)the [a]South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”

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  1. Zechariah 7:7 Heb. Negev

19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put him to death? (A)Did he not fear the Lord and (B)seek the Lord’s favor? And the Lord (C)relented concerning the doom which He had pronounced against them. (D)But we are doing great evil against ourselves.”

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Judah’s Sin and Punishment

17 “The sin of Judah is (A)written with a (B)pen of iron;
With the point of a diamond it is (C)engraved
On the tablet of their heart,
And on the horns of your altars,

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O Lord, are not (A)Your eyes on the truth?
You have (B)stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But (C)they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.

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Because I knew that you were [a]obstinate,
And (A)your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,

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  1. Isaiah 48:4 Heb. hard

17 (A)Seeing you hate instruction
And cast My words behind you?

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