Thematic Bible: Self-will


Thematic Bible



therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of Jehovah: I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt-offering. And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly; thou hast not kept the commandment of Jehovah thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would Jehovah have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. Verse ConceptsDeafnessWilful IgnoranceRebellion Against God, Shown InSpiritual DeafnessShouldersSelf WillRefusing To HearObstinate Individuals

But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us, Verse ConceptsTheocracySelf Will

As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee. Verse ConceptsStubbornnessSelf Will

They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law; Verse ConceptsContemptDisobedience, To GodProvokingSelf WillBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's Law

and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them, but hardened their neck, 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 abundant in lovingkindness, and forsookest them not. Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfAngerAggressionAnger Of God, DescriptionListeningRestraintSin, And God's CharacterLoving Kindness Of GodSelf WillGod Not ForsakingMaking SlavesA Forgiving GodSpeed Of God's AngerAnger And Forgiveness

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law. Verse ConceptsSelf Will

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Verse ConceptsStubbornnessPathways Of SinSelf WillBackwardsThe Hearts Incination To EvilimaginationattentionFalling Away From God

They say continually unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you. Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceFalse ProphetsSelf WillNo Peaceimagination

O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. Verse ConceptsIndifferenceMineralsPrayerlessnessRepentance, Importance OfSensitivityStubbornness, Consequences OfAfflictions Of The WickedAdmonition, RecievingObstinacy Against GodSelf WillGod, All knowing

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; Verse ConceptsImmaturityAcceptance, Of InstructionSelf WillChildren, UngratefulObstinate IndividualsMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A ChildMothers And SonsDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherParents LoveDiscipline Childdisobediencerebellionteenagerparenthood

And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Verse ConceptsAdmonition, RecievingSelf WillThose Against TruthAgainst The Truth

And Jehovah said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Verse ConceptsNecksStubbornnessStiffnecked PeopleSelf WillGod Seeing The Wicked

Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. Verse ConceptsUnderstandingObstinacy Against GodStiffnecked PeopleNecksSelf Will

Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Verse ConceptsGod Seeing The Wicked

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus , Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke : turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God. Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofObstinacy Against GodCalvesChastisementRevival, CorporateAfflictions, Prayer DuringAfflictions, Benefits OfSelf WillReinstating PeopleDisciplineYou Are Our God

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee. Verse ConceptsMulesBridlesHorsesRestraintRopesStubbornnessDivine RestraintsSelf WillBinding As Animals

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. Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodGenerationsAttitudes Of StubbornnessLoyaltyRebellion, Of IsraelSelf WillNot Like PeopleBeing Differentrebellionfatherhoodapostasy

For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death? Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelNecksSelf WillObstinate IndividualsKnowing FactsRebellion against Godrebellion


She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house: Verse ConceptsSelf WillWanderersFeet In ActionA Good Womanrebellion


And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSelf WillChildren, UngratefulFear Is DueInstructions About Stoning

Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck. Verse ConceptsNecksSelf WillBraggingHorns WeakenedDo Not Be Proudarrogance

Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you. Verse ConceptsSanctuaryStiffnecked People

And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. Verse ConceptsPrayer, For OthersStiffnecked PeopleNecksSelf WillGod Goes With YouGod Forgive!

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin, Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersServanthood, In Life Of BelieversSelf Will

Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of Jehovah, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah? And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God in Gilgal. read more.
And Samuel said, Hath Jehovah as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tried me by proving me, And saw my works forty years. read more.
Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways; As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them,) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfStiffnecked PeopleLife Through Keeping The LawWorks Of The LawProud People

But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments, Verse ConceptsForgetting GodNecksPride, Results OfSelf JustificationStubbornnessUnbelief, As Response To GodSelf WillProud PeopleBreaking God's Law

Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God. Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofImpenitence, Warnings AgainstListeningStubbornnessUnbelief, Results Of Being GuiltyNecksDoubting GodUnbelief Toward God

And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning unto Jehovah, the God of Israel. Verse ConceptsRebellion, Against Human AuthorityStiffnecked People


And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning unto Jehovah, the God of Israel. Verse ConceptsRebellion, Against Human AuthorityStiffnecked People

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Verse ConceptsStubbornnessPathways Of SinSelf WillBackwardsThe Hearts Incination To EvilimaginationattentionFalling Away From God

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Verse ConceptsStubbornnessPathways Of SinSelf WillBackwardsThe Hearts Incination To EvilimaginationattentionFalling Away From God

Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. Verse ConceptsStubbornnessSelf WillCensus



But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments, Verse ConceptsForgetting GodNecksPride, Results OfSelf JustificationStubbornnessUnbelief, As Response To GodSelf WillProud PeopleBreaking God's Law


Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded; Verse ConceptsThe Call Of GodSelf WillStretching OutRejectionListening To Godconsequencesanswersattention

O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked an ox. Verse ConceptsIrritationParticipation, In SinAnger Of Man, CauseSelf WillEvil AssociationsObstinate IndividualsReady To KillSports

But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way. Verse ConceptsHabitsSin, Nature OfSelf WillBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsDeath Of Office HoldersGod's People Sinning

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