'Knew' in the Bible

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and because your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze,

They are created now, and not long ago; you didn't hear them before today, so you cannot say, "Yes, I knew them.'

And neither had you heard, nor did you understand, nor did you open your ear long ago. Indeed, I knew that you would act very deceitfully, and they would call you a rebel from birth.