Psalms 78:8

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Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

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  • Ps 78:37 : 37 They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
  • Exod 32:9 : 9 Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.
  • Ezek 20:18 : 18 “‘But I said to their children in the wilderness,“Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
  • Deut 31:27 : 27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the LORD; you will be even more rebellious after my death!
  • 2 Chr 30:7 : 7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.
  • Exod 33:3 : 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for 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 went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”
  • Exod 34:9 : 9 and said,“If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
  • Deut 4:4 : 4 But you who remained faithful to the LORD your God are still alive to this very day, every one of you.
  • Deut 9:6-7 : 6 Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn people! 7 The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.
  • Deut 9:13 : 13 Moreover, he said to me,“I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!
  • Deut 9:24 : 24 You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”
  • Job 11:13 : 13 “As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,
  • Ps 68:6 : 6 God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.
  • 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 He did evil because he was not determined to follow the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”
  • 2 Chr 20:33 : 33 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.
  • Josh 14:8-9 : 8 My countrymen who accompanied me frightened the people, but I remained loyal to the LORD my God. 9 That day Moses made this solemn promise:‘Surely the land on which you walked will belong to you and your descendants permanently, for you remained loyal to the LORD your God.’
  • Matt 23:31-33 : 31 By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up then the measure of your ancestors! 33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
  • Acts 11:23 : 23 When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 For these are rebellious people– they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s law.
  • Ezek 2:3-8 : 3 He said to me,“Son of man, I am sending you to the house of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted against me to this very day. 4 The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, and you must say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says.’ 5 And as for them, whether they listen or not– for they are a rebellious house– they will know that a prophet has been among them. 6 But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words– even though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions– do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house! 7 You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious. 8 As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”
  • Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:6-7
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    6so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

    7Then they will place their confidence in God. They will not forget the works of God, and they will obey his commands.

  • Ps 78:37-38
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    37They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

    38Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

    8Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

    17They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
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    14But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.

    15They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the LORD. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • Ps 78:56-57
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    56Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.

    57They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

  • Ps 78:9-11
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    9The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they retreated in the day of battle.

    10They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

    11They forgot what he had done, the amazing things he had shown them.

  • Deut 32:5
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    5His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children– this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

  • Heb 3:8-10
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    8“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

    9“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

    10“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

    9where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

    10For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

  • Jer 7:26
    73%

    26But your ancestors did not listen to me nor pay attention to me. They became obstinate and were more wicked than even their own forefathers.’”

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
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    40But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.

  • Acts 7:39
    72%

    39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

  • Judg 2:10
    72%

    10That entire generation passed away; a new generation grew up that had not personally experienced the LORD’s presence or seen what he had done for Israel.

  • Deut 32:20
    72%

    20He said,“I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

  • Heb 8:9
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    9“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

  • Jer 7:24
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    24But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better.

  • Ps 78:40
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    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

  • Ezek 20:18
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    18“‘But I said to their children in the wilderness,“Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

  • Ps 106:7
    71%

    7Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9For these are rebellious people– they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s law.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.

  • Ps 78:32
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    32Despite all this, they continued to sin, and did not trust him to do amazing things.

  • Ps 78:4
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    4we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the LORD’s praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

  • Jer 5:23
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    23But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.

  • Lam 5:7
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    7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.’

  • Num 14:23
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    23they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

  • Deut 1:35
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    35“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

  • Ps 78:30
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    30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 8:58
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    58May he make us submissive, so we can follow all his instructions and obey the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

  • Jer 11:8
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    8But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.’”

  • Ps 78:42
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    42They did not remember what he had done, how he delivered them from the enemy,

  • Deut 21:18
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    18If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

  • Judg 2:19-20
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    19When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

    20A Divine Decision The LORD was furious with Israel. He said,“This nation has violated the terms of the covenant I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

  • Jer 16:12
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    12And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me.