Psalms 78:8

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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 stedfast in his covenant.
  • Exod 32:9 : 9 And the LORD 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 necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
  • Ezek 20:18 : 18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, 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 the LORD; and how much more after my ath?
  • 2 Chr 30:7 : 7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore 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 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and 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 grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among 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 the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
  • Deut 9:6-7 : 6 Unrstand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilrness: from the day that thou didst part out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
  • Deut 9:13 : 13 Furthermore the LORD 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 the LORD from the day that I knew you.
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
  • Job 11:13 : 13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
  • Ps 68:6 : 6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
  • 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
  • 2 Chr 20:33 : 33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared 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 the LORD my God. 9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
  • Matt 23:31-33 : 31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
  • Acts 11:23 : 23 Who, when he came, and had seen the gre of God, was glad, and 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 mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
  • Ezek 2:3-8 : 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 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 be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be 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 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 will pour out my fury 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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    6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

    7 That 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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    37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

    38 But he, being full of compassion, 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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    7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

    8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and harded their cks, and hearked not to thy commandments,

    17 And refused to obey, ither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but harded their cks, 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 of great kindss, and forsookest them not.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
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    14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

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

  • Ps 78:56-57
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    56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

    57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

  • Ps 78:9-11
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    9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

    10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

    11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

  • Deut 32:5
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    5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

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

    9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

    10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

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

    10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

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

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

  • Acts 7:39
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    39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned bk again into Egypt,

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

  • Deut 32:20
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    20 And he said, I will hi my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

  • Heb 8:9
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    9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

  • Jer 7:24
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    24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • Ps 78:40
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    40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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

  • Ps 106:7
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    7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.

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

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

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

  • Lam 5:7
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    7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

  • Num 14:23
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    23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

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

  • Ps 78:30
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    30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

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

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

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    42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

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

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

    20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;

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    12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: