Deuteronomy 9:6

Detailed Stipulations

⁵ It is not because you have been living right or because you are so honest that you enter to take possession of their land. It is because these people are so wicked that Jehovah your God is forcing them out of your way. It is also because Jehovah wants to confirm the promise he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ⁶ “Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stubborn people. ⁷ Never forget how you made Jehovah your God angry in the desert. You rebelled against Jehovah from the day you left Egypt until you came here.

Stiff-Necked People

As A Possession

Jehovah

Deuteronomy 9:13

Jehovah spoke further to me: 'I have seen this people. They are a very stubborn people.

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise your heart, and do not stiffen your neck. (Circumcise: Cut short the foreskin.) (Remove hardness of the heart.)

Deuteronomy 31:27

I know how rebellious you are. You are impossible to deal with. While I am alive and still with you, you are rebelling against Jehovah. How much more rebellious will you be after I die?

Exodus 32:9

Jehovah added: I have seen these people. They have an iron sinew (stiff necked people) (are impossible to deal with).

Exodus 33:3

Go to that land flowing with milk and honey. I will not be with you, because you are impossible to deal with. I would probably destroy you on the way.

Exodus 34:9

He prayed: Jehovah, if you really are pleased with me, I pray that you will go with us. It is true that these people are sinful and rebellious. However, please forgive our sin and let us be your people.

Deuteronomy 9:3-4

Understand today that Jehovah your God is the one who is going ahead of you like a consuming (raging) (devouring) fire. He will wipe them out. Then he will use you to crush their power. You will take possession of their land and will quickly destroy them as Jehovah promised you.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to Jehovah and enter his sanctuary that he has consecrated from generation to generation. Serve Jehovah your God that His burning anger may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 36:13

Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar made Zedekiah swear an oath of allegiance to him in God's name. But Zedekiah became so stubborn and so impossible to deal with that he refused to turn back to Jehovah the God of Israel.

Psalm 78:8

They should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Isaiah 48:3-4

Jehovah says to Israel: Long ago I predicted what would take place. Then suddenly I made it happen.

Ezekiel 2:4

I am sending you to these defiant and stubborn children. Tell them: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says:

Ezekiel 20:44

You will know that I am Jehovah, because I will deal with you for the sake of my name. I will not deal with you based on the evil and corrupt things that you have done, O nation of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah!

Zechariah 7:11-12

They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

Acts 7:51

You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.

Romans 5:20-21

The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.