Exodus 4:21

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

On the way the LORD said to Moses: When you get to Egypt, go to the king and work the miracles I have shown you. But I will make him so stubborn that he will refuse to let my people go.

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

Then the LORD said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone for ever. No one will live for more than one hundred and twenty years.”

1 Kings 22:22

“I'll make Ahab's prophets lie to him.” “Good!” the LORD replied. “Now go and do it.”

Psalm 105:25

They served the LORD, and he made the Egyptians plan hateful things against them.

Psalm 78:43

God showed them all kinds of wonderful miracles near Zoan in Egypt.

Exodus 10:1

The LORD said to Moses: Go back to the king. I have made him and his officials stubborn, so that I could work these miracles.

Exodus 10:20

but the LORD made the king so stubborn that he still refused to let the Israelites go.

Exodus 10:27

This time the LORD made the king so stubborn

Exodus 11:10

So the king of Egypt saw Moses and Aaron work miracles, but the LORD made him stubbornly refuse to let the Israelites leave his country.

Exodus 11:9

What the LORD had earlier said to Moses came true. He had said, “The king of Egypt won't listen. Then I will perform even more miracles.”

Exodus 14:17

I will make the Egyptians so stubborn that they will go after you. Then I will be praised because of what happens to the king and his chariots and cavalry.

Exodus 14:4

I will make the king stubborn again, and he will try to catch you. Then I will destroy him and his army. People everywhere will praise me for my victory, and the Egyptians will know that I really am the LORD. The Israelites obeyed the LORD and camped where he told them.

Exodus 14:8

The LORD made the king so stubborn that he went after them, even though the Israelites proudly went on their way.

Exodus 3:19

But I know that the king of Egypt won't let you go unless something forces him to.

Exodus 3:20

So I will use my mighty power to perform all kinds of miracles and strike down the Egyptians. Then the king will send you away.

Exodus 7:13

The king behaved just as the LORD had said and stubbornly refused to listen.

Exodus 7:3

But I will make the king so stubborn that he won't listen to you. He won't listen even when I do many terrible things to him and his nation. Then I will bring a final punishment on Egypt, and the king will let Israel's families and tribes go.

Exodus 8:11

and frogs will no longer be found anywhere, except in the Nile.”

Exodus 8:15

But when the king saw that things were now better, he again did just as the LORD had said and stubbornly refused to listen to Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 8:32

But the king turned stubborn again and would not let the people go.

Exodus 9:12

Everything happened just as the LORD had told Moses—he made the king too stubborn to listen to Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 9:35

that he refused to let the Israelites go. This was exactly what the LORD had said would happen.

Isaiah 6:10

“Make these people stubborn! Make them stop up their ears, cover their eyes, and fail to understand. Don't let them turn to me and be healed.”

Isaiah 63:17

Why did you make us turn away from you, our LORD? Why did you make us want to disobey you? Please change your mind! We are your servants, your very own people.

John 12:40

“The Lord has blinded the eyes of the people, and he has made the people stubborn. He did this so that they could not see or understand, and so that they would not turn to the Lord and be healed.”

Romans 1:28

Since these people refused even to think about God, he let their useless minds rule over them. That's why they do all sorts of indecent things.

Romans 9:18

Everything depends on what God decides to do, and he can either have pity on people or make them stubborn.

Deuteronomy 2:36

The LORD helped us capture every town from the gorge of the River Arnon north to the boundary of Gilead, including the town of Aroer on the edge of the gorge and the town in the middle of the gorge.

1 Peter 2:8

They disobeyed the message and stumbled and fell over that stone, because they were doomed.