2 Kings 17:14

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And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

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  • Deut 31:27 : 27 For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Rom 2:4-5 : 4 Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart? 5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
  • Heb 3:7-8 : 7 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears, 8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:
  • Exod 32:9 : 9 And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.
  • Deut 1:32 : 32 But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.
  • Ps 78:22 : 22 Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.
  • Ps 78:32 : 32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.
  • Ps 106:24 : 24 They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

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  • Jer 7:26-27
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    26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

    27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23 But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

    17 And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40-41
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    40 But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

    41 So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

  • Zech 7:11-13
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    11 But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

    12 And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

    13 And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

  • Neh 9:29-30
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    29 And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.

    30 Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • 2 Kgs 17:15
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    15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

  • Jer 11:8
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    8 But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.

  • Jer 7:24
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    24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

  • Jer 44:5
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    5 But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.

  • Ezek 3:7
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    7 But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

  • Jer 11:10-11
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    10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

    11 So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
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    12 Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.

  • 2 Chr 24:19
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    19 And the Lord sent them prophets to make them come back to him; and they gave witness against them, but they would not give ear.

  • Neh 9:26
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    26 But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

  • Jer 19:15
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    15 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send on this town and on all her towns all the evil which I have said; because they made their necks stiff, so that they might not give ear to my words.

  • Jer 44:10
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    10 Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

  • Ps 81:11
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    11 But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

    8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

  • Exod 7:13
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    13 But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

  • 2 Chr 33:10
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    10 And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Ps 78:10
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    10 They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

  • Job 34:27
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    27 Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

  • Jer 5:3
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    3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

  • Lev 26:14
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    14 But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;

  • 2 Kgs 17:34
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    34 So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

  • Deut 9:13
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    13 And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

  • 1 Sam 12:15
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    15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord, but go against his orders, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and against your king for your destruction, as it was against your fathers.

  • 2 Chr 36:13
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    13 And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.

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    4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

  • Deut 1:26
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    26 But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

  • Ps 78:32
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    32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

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    16 Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

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    51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

  • Jer 9:13-14
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    13 And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

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    57 Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

  • Jer 32:33
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    33 And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching.