The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
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- WEB Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
- KJV Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- NKJV “Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.
- NASB The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a stubborn people.
- NLT “The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.
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God further told Moses that he had seen this stiff-necked people. Their stubborn rebellion was fully exposed before God.
Overview
God describes Israel as a stiff-necked people, confirming the assessment Moses gave earlier. Nothing about their sin is hidden from God's sight. This divine verdict underscores Israel's guilt and the justice of God's anger, while setting the stage for Moses' pleading intercession on their behalf.
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- Deut 9:6Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
- Deut 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
- 2 Kgs 17:14But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
- Deut 31:27For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
- Exod 32:9–10The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
- Ps 50:7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
- Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Jer 7:11Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
- Hos 6:10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
- Gen 11:5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
- Jer 13:27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
- Gen 18:21I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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