Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Parallel translations
- WEB Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
- BSB The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked 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 therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
- Deut 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
- 2 Kgs 17:14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
- Deut 31:27For 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?
- Exod 32:9–10And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Ps 50:7Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
- Mal 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Jer 7:11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
- Hos 6:10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
- Gen 11:5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- Jer 13:27I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
- Gen 18:21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
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