Nehemiah 9:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ “But they, our ancestors, acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks and did not obey your commandments;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But our ancestors acted arrogantly. They were stubborn and wouldn’t obey your commandments.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Yet truly, they and our fathers acted arrogantly, and they hardened their necks, and they did not listen to your commandments.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments.

Nehemiah 9:16 Cross References

2 Kings 17:14

They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

2 Chronicles 29:6

For our ancestors have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God; they have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the dwelling of the Lord and turned their backs.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not now be stiff-necked as your ancestors were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 36:13

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

Nehemiah 9:10

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted insolently against our ancestors. You made a name for yourself that remains to this day.

Nehemiah 9:29

And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law, yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments but sinned against your ordinances, by the observance of which a person shall live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

Psalm 106:6

Both we and our ancestors have sinned; we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.

Psalm 81:8

Hear, O my people, while I admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

Exodus 15:26

He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not bring upon you any of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you.”

Exodus 32:9

The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are.

Proverbs 29:1

One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Isaiah 48:18

O that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river and your success like the waves of the sea;

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; therefore he became their enemy; he himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 19:15

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am now bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks, refusing to hear my words.

Jeremiah 2:31

And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, “We are free; we will come to you no more”?

Jeremiah 7:26

yet they did not listen to me or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.

Ezekiel 5:6

But she has rebelled against my ordinances and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries all around her, rejecting my ordinances and not following my statutes.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know well how rebellious and stubborn you are. If you already have been so rebellious toward the Lord while I am still alive among you, how much more after my death!

Deuteronomy 32:15

Jacob ate his fill; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You grew fat, bloated, and gorged! He abandoned God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only they had such a mind as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!

Deuteronomy 9:13

Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn people.

Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; pay no attention to the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin,

Deuteronomy 9:6

“Know, then, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to occupy because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 3:15

As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”