Psalms 78:8

American Standard Version (1901)

And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

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  • Ps 78:37 : 37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
  • Exod 32:9 : 9 And Jehovah said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God.
  • Ezek 20:18 : 18 And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
  • Deut 31:27 : 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death?
  • 2 Chr 30:7 : 7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
  • Exod 33:3 : 3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I consume thee in the way.
  • Exod 33:5 : 5 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
  • Exod 34:9 : 9 And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
  • Deut 4:4 : 4 But ye that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day.
  • Deut 9:6-7 : 6 Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. 7 Remember, forget thou not, how thou provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah.
  • Deut 9:13 : 13 Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
  • Deut 9:24 : 24 Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 that setteth his heart to seek God, Jehovah, the God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.
  • Job 11:13 : 13 If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;
  • Ps 68:6 : 6 God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
  • 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 And he did that which was evil, because he set not his heart to seek Jehovah.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thy heart to seek God.
  • 2 Chr 20:33 : 33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
  • Josh 14:8-9 : 8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God. 9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy foot hath trodden shall be an inheritance to thee and to thy children for ever, because thou hast wholly followed Jehovah my God.
  • Matt 23:31-33 : 31 Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
  • Acts 11:23 : 23 who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad; and he exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord:
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
  • Ezek 2:3-8 : 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day. 4 And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah. 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house. 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious. 8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee.
  • Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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  • Ps 78:6-7
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    6That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children,

    7That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,

  • Ps 78:37-38
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    37For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.

    38But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

    8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

    17and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and forsookest them not.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
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    14Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God.

    15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

  • Ps 78:56-57
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    56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

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    9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

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    11And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.

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    5They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.

  • Heb 3:8-10
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    8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

    9Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me], And saw my works forty years.

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    8Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;

    9When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.

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  • Jer 7:26
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    26yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
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    40Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

  • Judg 2:10
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    10And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, that knew not Jehovah, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.

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    20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

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    9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

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    24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

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    40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

  • Ezek 20:18
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    18And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

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    7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

  • Judg 2:17
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    17And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; [but] they did not so.

  • Ps 78:32
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    32For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.

  • Ps 78:4
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    4We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.

  • Jer 5:23
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    23But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

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    7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23But they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

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    23surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:

  • Deut 1:35
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    35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

  • Ps 78:30
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    30They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,

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    33Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 8:58
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    58that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

  • Jer 11:8
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    8Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.

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    42They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

  • Deut 21:18
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    18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

  • Judg 2:19-20
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    19But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

    20And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;

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    12and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me: