Psalms 78:8

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

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  • Ps 78:37 : 37 Their hearts were not faithful to Him, nor were they loyal to His covenant.
  • Exod 32:9 : 9 The LORD also said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people."
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God.
  • Ezek 20:18 : 18 I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not follow the statutes of your fathers, do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.
  • 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!
  • 2 Chr 30:7 : 7 Do 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.
  • Exod 33:3 : 3 Go to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.
  • Exod 33:5 : 5 For the LORD had said to Moses, 'Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you for even a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, and I will decide what to do with you.’
  • Exod 34:9 : 9 He said, "If I have found favor in your eyes, O Lord, please let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and our sin, and make us Your inheritance."
  • Deut 4:4 : 4 But all of you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive today.
  • Deut 9:6-7 : 6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people. 7 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
  • Deut 9:13 : 13 The LORD also said to me, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.
  • Deut 9:24 : 24 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day I first knew you.
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 who sets their heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of their ancestors—even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary.'
  • Job 11:13 : 13 If you would set your heart right and stretch out your hands toward Him,
  • Ps 68:6 : 6 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling.
  • 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 He did evil because he did not resolve in his heart to seek the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart to seek God.
  • 2 Chr 20:33 : 33 However, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not fully set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.
  • Josh 14:8-9 : 8 'But my brothers who went up with me discouraged the hearts of the people, while I followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.' 9 'On that day, Moses swore to me: “The land on which your foot has walked will be your inheritance and that of your descendants forever because you have followed the LORD my God fully.”'
  • Matt 23:31-33 : 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your forefathers' sins! 33 You serpents, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?
  • 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.
  • Acts 11:23 : 23 When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts.
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our ancestors in Egypt did not consider Your miracles; they did not remember the abundance of Your lovingkindness but rebelled at the sea, the Red Sea.
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 These are a rebellious people, deceitful children, unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction.
  • Ezek 2:3-8 : 3 He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this very day. 4 The descendants are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says.' 5 Whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them. 6 You, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not fear though briars, thorns, or scorpions are around you. Do not be afraid of their words or terrified by their presence, for they are a rebellious house. 7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious. 8 But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like this rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.
  • Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; none of them got rid of the detestable things their eyes were set on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and unleash my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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  • Ps 78:6-7
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    6so that the next generation would know them—children yet to be born—and in turn they would rise and tell their children,

    7so they would put their trust in God and not forget His deeds but keep His commandments.

  • Ps 78:37-38
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    37Their hearts were not faithful to Him, nor were they loyal to His covenant.

    38Yet He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Time and again, He restrained His anger and did not stir up His full wrath.

  • 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.

  • 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 17:14-15
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    14But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God.

    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.

  • Ps 78:56-57
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    56But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep His decrees.

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

  • Ps 78:9-11
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    9The sons of Ephraim, armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle.

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

    11They forgot His deeds and the wonders He had shown them.

  • Deut 32:5
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    5They have acted corruptly toward Him; they are not His children because of their defect—a crooked and perverse generation.

  • Heb 3:8-10
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    8do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,

    9where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works.

    10That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always wandering, and they have not known my ways.'

  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

    9where your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen My deeds.

    10For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know My ways.'

  • Jer 7:26
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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.

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

  • 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.

  • Judg 2:10
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    10After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD or the works he had done for Israel.

  • Deut 32:20
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    20He said: I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.

  • Heb 8:9
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    9It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and so I turned away from them, declares the Lord.

  • 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.

  • Ps 78:40
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    40How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland!

  • Ezek 20:18
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    18I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not follow the statutes of your fathers, do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.

  • Ps 106:7
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    7Our ancestors in Egypt did not consider Your miracles; they did not remember the abundance of Your lovingkindness but rebelled at the sea, the Red Sea.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9These are a rebellious people, deceitful children, unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction.

  • 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.

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

  • Ps 78:4
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    4We will not hide them from their children, but will tell the next generation the praises of the Lord, His strength, and the wonders He has done.

  • Jer 5:23
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    23But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

  • Lam 5:7
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    7Our ancestors sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

  • 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.

  • Num 14:23
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    23not one of them will see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has spurned me will see it.

  • Deut 1:35
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    35Not one man of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,

  • Ps 78:30
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    30But while the food was still in their mouths, they were not yet free of their craving.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33However, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not fully set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 8:58
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    58May He turn our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commands, statutes, and judgments, which He gave to our ancestors.

  • 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.

  • Ps 78:42
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    42They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from their enemy,

  • Deut 21:18
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    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them,

  • Judg 2:19-20
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    19But when the judge died, they returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods, serving them, and bowing down to them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

    20Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he said, 'Because this nation has violated the covenant I commanded their ancestors and has not listened to my voice,'

  • Jer 16:12
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    12And you have behaved even more wickedly than your ancestors, each one following the stubbornness of their own evil heart instead of listening to Me.