¹⁴ Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God.

²⁷ 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?

⁵¹ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

¹² 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:

⁷ Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

⁸ Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

⁵ but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

²⁶ yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

⁴ Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

¹ He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

²⁴ Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,

³² For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.

²² Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.

¹³ 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.

³² Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God,

⁹ And Jehovah said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: