2 Chronicles 36:13

Zedekiah rebels against Nebuchadnezzar, breaking a sworn oath, and hardens his heart against returning to God. Stubborn unbelief and broken faith bring judgment.

Cross-references · 17

• 2 Chr 30:8Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
• Jer 52:2–3He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
• Ezek 17:11–20Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
• Josh 9:19–20But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.
• Josh 9:15Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.
• 2 Kgs 24:20For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
• 2 Kgs 17:4The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized him, and bound him in prison.
• 2 Sam 21:2The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
• Neh 9:16–17“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
• Neh 9:29and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
• Isa 48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
• Heb 3:13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
• Heb 3:8don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
• Exod 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
• Rom 2:4–5Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
• Exod 9:17as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
• Exod 8:32Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.

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