Nehemiah 9:16

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Summary

Nehemiah 9:16

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

Dealt

Hardened

General references

Numbers 14:4

Psalm 106:6

Bible References

Dealt

And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.

And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold it is a stiff-necked people:

Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou hast waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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 steadfast with God.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more to thee?

Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Hardened

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 death?

Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to 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.

And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning to the LORD God of Israel.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

General references

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.