Lessons From Israel's Past

⁷ And place in God their confidence, And forget not the doings of God, But keep His commands. 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. ⁹ Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.

With God

O God

Psalm 78:37

And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.

Exodus 32:9

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'I have seen this people, and lo, it is a stiff-necked people;

Deuteronomy 31:27

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.

2 Kings 17:14

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

Ezekiel 20:18

And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

Exodus 33:3

unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in thy midst, for thou art a stiff-necked people -- lest I consume thee in the way.'

2 Chronicles 30:7

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.

Exodus 33:5

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people; one moment -- I come up into thy midst, and have consumed thee; and now, put down thine ornaments from off thee, and I know what I do to thee;'

Exodus 34:9

and saith, 'If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, O my Lord, let my Lord, I pray Thee, go in our midst (for it is a stiff-necked people), and thou hast forgiven our iniquity and our sin, and hast inherited us.'

Deuteronomy 4:4

and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God, are alive, all of you, to-day.

Deuteronomy 9:6-7

and thou hast known, that not for thy righteousness is Jehovah thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck thou art.

Deuteronomy 9:13

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

Deuteronomy 9:24

rebels ye have been with Jehovah from the day of my knowing you.

Joshua 14:8-9

and my brethren who have gone up with me have caused the heart of the people to melt, and I have been fully after Jehovah my God;

2 Chronicles 12:14

and he doth the evil thing, for he hath not prepared his heart to seek Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 19:3

but good things have been found with thee, for thou hast put away the shrines out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.'

2 Chronicles 20:33

Only, the high places have not turned aside, and still the people have not prepared their heart for the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 30:19

who hath prepared his heart to seek God -- Jehovah, God of his fathers -- yet not according to the cleansing of the sanctuary;'

Job 11:13

If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

Psalm 68:6

God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

Psalm 106:7

Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.

Isaiah 30:9

That a rebellious people is this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.

Ezekiel 2:3-8

And He saith unto Me, 'Son of man, I am sending thee unto the sons of Israel, unto nations who are rebels, who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me, unto this self-same day.

Ezekiel 20:8

And -- they rebel against Me, And have not been willing to hearken to Me, Each, the detestable things of their eyes, They have not cast away, And the idols of Egypt have not forsaken, And I say -- to pour out My fury on them, To complete Mine anger against them, In the midst of the land of Egypt.

Matthew 23:31-33

So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

Acts 7:51

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

Acts 11:23

who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,