Self-Will and Stubbornness

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 2 Chronicles 36:13 OT

  He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• 1 Samuel 15:23 OT

  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

• Titus 1:7 NT

  For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

• Hebrews 3:7-12 NT

  Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for…

• Exodus 34:9 OT

  He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

• Deuteronomy 9:27 OT

  Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

• Proverbs 7:11 OT

  She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

• 2 Peter 2:10 NT

  but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

• Judges 2:19 OT

  But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

• Deuteronomy 21:21 OT

  All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

• Proverbs 29:1 OT

  He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

• Psalms 32:9 OT

  Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

• Jeremiah 31:18 OT

  “I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

• Genesis 49:6 OT

  My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

• Exodus 32:9 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

• Deuteronomy 9:6 OT

  Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

• Deuteronomy 9:13 OT

  Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

• 1 Samuel 15:19-23 OT

  Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?” Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the…

• 2 Samuel 24:4 OT

  Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 35:22 OT

  Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.