2 Kings 17:14

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But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God.

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  • Deut 31:27 : 27 For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after my death!
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.
  • Rom 2:4-5 : 4 Or do you disrespect the riches of His kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  • Heb 3:7-8 : 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
  • Exod 32:9 : 9 The LORD also said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people."
  • Deut 1:32 : 32 But in this matter, you did not trust in the LORD your God,
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
  • Ps 78:22 : 22 For they did not believe in God or trust in His salvation.
  • Ps 78:32 : 32 Despite all this, they kept on sinning and did not believe in His wondrous works.
  • Ps 106:24 : 24 But they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 A man who is often corrected but stubbornly stiffens his neck will be suddenly broken beyond healing.
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 Because I knew how stubborn you are, with your neck as iron sinew and your forehead like bronze,
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 But they did not listen to me or incline their ear; instead, they stiffened their necks and did worse than their ancestors.

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  • Jer 7:26-27
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    26But they did not listen to me or incline their ear; instead, they stiffened their necks and did worse than their ancestors.

    27When you speak all these words to them, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer you.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23Yet they did not listen or incline their ear. They stiffened their necks and would not listen or take correction.

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    16But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments.

    17They refused to listen and did not remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, and You did not abandon them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40-41
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    40But they would not listen. Instead, they continued to act according to their former customs.

    41So these nations feared the Lord, but they also served their carved images. Their children and grandchildren continued to do as their fathers did, even to this day.

  • Zech 7:11-13
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    11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder. They stopped their ears so they would not hear.

    12They made their hearts as hard as flint, refusing to hear the law and the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of Hosts.

    13'Just as I called, and they did not listen, so when they call, I will not listen,' says the LORD of Hosts.

  • Neh 9:29-30
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    29You warned them to return to Your law, but they acted arrogantly and did not obey Your commandments. They sinned against Your judgments, which, if a person does, they will live by them. Stubbornly, they turned their backs, stiffened their necks, and would not listen.

    30For many years, You were patient with them. You warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets, yet they would not listen. So You gave them into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • 2 Kgs 17:15
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    15They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.

  • Jer 11:8
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    8Yet they did not listen or incline their ear; instead, each one followed the stubbornness of their own evil heart. So I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to obey but they did not.

  • Jer 7:24
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    24But they did not listen or incline their ear; instead, they walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts. They went backward, not forward.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17Yet they did not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. They turned quickly from the way their ancestors had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments. They did not do as their ancestors had done.

  • Jer 44:5
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    5But they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness and to stop burning incense to other gods.

  • Ezek 3:7
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    7But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me. The entire house of Israel is hard-headed and stubborn-hearted.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.

  • Jer 11:10-11
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    10They have turned back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors.

    11Therefore, this is what the LORD says: ‘I am bringing disaster upon them from which they cannot escape. Even though they will cry out to me, I will not listen to them.’

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
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    12This happened because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but violated His covenant—all that Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded. They neither listened nor carried it out.

  • 2 Chr 24:19
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    19The Lord sent prophets among them to bring them back to Him, but though the prophets testified against them, they refused to listen.

  • Neh 9:26
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    26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them to turn back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

  • Jer 19:15
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    15This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to bring upon this city and all its surrounding towns all the disaster I pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks and refused to listen to My words.

  • Jer 44:10
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    10To this day, they have not humbled themselves, nor have they feared me or walked in my law and my decrees that I set before you and your ancestors.

  • Ps 81:11
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    11I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7Do not be like your ancestors and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

    8Now do not harden your necks as your ancestors did. Submit to the LORD; come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.

  • Exod 7:13
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    13Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

  • 2 Chr 33:10
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    10The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39But our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

  • Ps 78:10
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    10They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by His teachings.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways,

  • Jer 5:3
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    3Lord, are Your eyes not on truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; You consumed them, but they refused to accept discipline. They hardened their faces more than a rock and refused to repent.

  • Lev 26:14
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    14But if you will not listen to me and will not carry out all these commandments,

  • 2 Kgs 17:34
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    34To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They neither fear the Lord nor follow the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

  • Deut 9:13
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    13The LORD also said to me, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

  • 1 Sam 12:15
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    15But if you do not obey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 36:13
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    13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • Zech 1:4
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    4Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

  • Deut 1:26
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    26But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

  • Ps 78:32
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    32Despite all this, they kept on sinning and did not believe in His wondrous works.

  • Deut 10:16
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    16Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your hearts and do not be stiff-necked any longer.

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    51You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.

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    13Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

    14Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'See, I will feed this people with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink.'

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    57They turned back and were disloyal like their ancestors; they became twisted like a deceitful bow.

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    33They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them persistently, they refused to listen or accept correction.