Self-Will and Stubbornness
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Self-Will and Stubbornness’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Now 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.
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Psalms 75:5 OT
Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
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Psalms 95:8 OT
Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
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Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.
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“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
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and 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,…
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But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
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Isaiah 48:4 OT
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
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Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
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But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
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“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
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But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
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and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful,…
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Psalms 78:10 OT
They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
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Isaiah 42:24 OT
Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
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Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
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If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
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then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.
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Jeremiah 5:3 OT
O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
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You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
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For 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?
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Psalms 78:8 OT
and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
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Acts 7:51 NT
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
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They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’