But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Parallel translations
- WEB “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.
- BSB But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
- NKJV But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; They have revolted and departed.
- NASB ‘But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; They have turned aside and departed.
- NLT But my people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned away and abandoned me.
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Quick answer
When David inquires again, the Lord directs a different strategy of flanking the enemy near the mulberry trees. God gives specific guidance for this new battle.
Overview
David seeks the Lord a second time, and this time God instructs him not to attack head-on but to circle behind and strike from the front of the balsam trees. The changed tactics show that David did not rely on past patterns but on fresh divine direction. His careful obedience contrasts with self-reliant presumption and models trust in God's specific leading.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 6:28They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
- Hos 11:7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
- Heb 3:12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
- Ps 95:10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
- Deut 21:18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
- Isa 1:5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Isa 31:6Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
- Jer 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
- Hos 4:8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
- Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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