Nehemiah 9:16 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁶ “But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey thy 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

But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

2 Chronicles 29:6

For our fathers 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 habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever, and serve the Lord your God, 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

and didst perform signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for thou knewest that they acted insolently against our fathers; and thou didst get thee a name, as it is to this day.

Nehemiah 9:29

And thou didst warn them in order to turn them back to thy law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey thy commandments, but sinned against thy ordinances, by the observance of which a man shall live, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

Psalm 106:6

Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity, we 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

saying, “If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Exodus 32:9

And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;

Proverbs 29:1

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Isaiah 48:18

O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness 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 turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 19:15

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.”

Jeremiah 2:31

And you, O generation, heed 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 no more to thee’?

Jeremiah 7:26

yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

Ezekiel 5:6

And she has wickedly rebelled against my ordinances more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries round about her, by rejecting my ordinances and not walking in my statutes.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

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 how rebellious and stubborn you are; behold, while I am yet alive with you, today you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more after my death!

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked; you waxed fat, you grew thick, you became sleek; then he forsook God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 5:29

Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children for ever!

Deuteronomy 9:13

“Furthermore the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people;

Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness, or their sin,

Deuteronomy 9:6

“Know therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess 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,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 3:15

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