2 Kings 17:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,

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  • Deut 31:27 : 27 for I -- I have known thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; lo, in my being yet alive with you to-day, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;
  • Rom 2:4-5 : 4 or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? -- not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation! 5 but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
  • Heb 3:7-8 : 7 Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear -- 8 ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
  • Exod 32:9 : 9 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `I have seen this people, and lo, it `is' a stiff-necked people;
  • Deut 1:32 : 32 `And in this thing ye are not stedfast in Jehovah your God,
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 and also, against king Nebuchadnezzar he hath rebelled, who had caused him to swear by God, and he hardeneth his neck, and strengtheneth his heart, against turning back unto Jehovah, God of Israel.
  • Ps 78:22 : 22 For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation.
  • Ps 78:32 : 32 With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders.
  • Ps 106:24 : 24 And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.

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  • Jer 7:26-27
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    87%

    26 And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.

    27 And thou hast spoken unto them all these words, And they do not hearken to thee, And thou hast called unto them, And they do not answer thee.

  • 23 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction.

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    16 `And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

    17 yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou `art' a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them.

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    40 and they have not hearkened, but according to their former custom they are doing,

    41 and these nations are fearing Jehovah, and their graven images they have served, both their sons and their sons' sons; as their fathers did, they are doing unto this day.

  • Zech 7:11-13
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    11 And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

    12 And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts.

    13 And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

  • Neh 9:29-30
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    29 and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they -- they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, -- which man doth and hath lived in them -- and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened.

    30 `And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,

  • 15 and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them;

  • 8 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they walk each in the stubbornness of their evil heart, And I bring on them all the words of this covenant, That I commanded to do, and they did not.'

  • 24 And they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, In the stubbornness, of their evil heart, And are for backward, and not for forward.

  • 17 and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside `with' haste out of the way `in' which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah -- they have not done so.

  • 5 and they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, to turn back from their wickedness, not to make perfume to other gods,

  • 7 but the house of Israel are not willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto Me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted.

  • 8 And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God `is' its spirit.

  • Jer 11:10-11
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    10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their first fathers, Who refused to hear My words, And they have gone after other gods to serve them, The house of Israel, and the house of Judah, Have made void My covenant, that I made with their fathers.

    11 Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.

  • 12 because that they have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, and transgress His covenant -- all that He commanded Moses, servant of Jehovah -- yea, they have not hearkened nor done `it'.

  • 19 And He sendeth among them prophets, to bring them back unto Jehovah, and they testify against them, and they have not given ear;

  • 26 `And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,

  • 15 `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in unto this city, and on all its cities, all the evil that I have spoken against it, for they have hardened their neck -- not to hear My words!'

  • 10 They have not been humbled unto this day, nor have they been afraid, nor have they walked in My law, and in My statutes, that I have set before you and before your fathers.

  • 11 But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7 and do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, God of their fathers, and He giveth them to desolation, as ye do see.

    8 `Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;

  • 13 and the heart of Pharaoh is strong, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.

  • 10 And Jehovah speaketh unto Manasseh and unto his people, and they have not attended,

  • 39 to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • 10 They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

  • 27 Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

  • 3 Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

  • 14 `And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands;

  • 34 Unto this day they are doing according to the former customs -- they are not fearing Jehovah, and are not doing according to their statutes, and according to their ordinances, and according to the law, and according to the command, that Jehovah commanded the sons of Jacob whose name He made Israel,

  • 13 `And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it `is';

  • 15 `And if ye do not hearken to the voice of Jehovah -- then ye have provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and the hand of Jehovah hath been against you, and against your fathers.

  • 13 and also, against king Nebuchadnezzar he hath rebelled, who had caused him to swear by God, and he hardeneth his neck, and strengtheneth his heart, against turning back unto Jehovah, God of Israel.

  • 4 Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

  • 26 `And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God,

  • 32 With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders.

  • 16 and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;

  • 51 `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

  • Jer 9:13-14
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    13 And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,

    14 And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,

  • 57 And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

  • 33 And they turn unto Me the neck, and not the face, and teaching them, rising early and teaching, and they are not hearkening to accept instruction.