“The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.
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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:
- 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.
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Quick answer
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 9:6Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
- Deut 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
- 2 Kgs 17:14Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.
- Deut 31:27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?
- Exod 32:9–10Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
- Ps 50:7“Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
- Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Jer 7:11Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says Yahweh.
- Hos 6:10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
- Gen 11:5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Jer 13:27I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?”
- Gen 18:21I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
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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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