Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers {did}, so {do} ye.

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?

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: {the pleasant...: Heb. a land of desire}

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

Because I knew that thou {art} obstinate, and thy neck {is} an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; {obstinate: Heb. hard}

He, that being often reproved hardeneth {his} neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. {He...: Heb. A man of reproofs}

And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

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 unto the LORD God of Israel.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Because I knew that thou {art} obstinate, and thy neck {is} an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; {obstinate: Heb. hard}

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. {that...: Heb. that prepared not their heart}

But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: {in pride: or, to deal proudly} {deposed: Chaldee, made to come down}

Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; {upon...: Heb. upon bricks}

And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, {so} their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. {fire: Heb. tongue of fire}

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

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

My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

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