So I spoke to you, but you didn’t listen. You rebelled against the Lord’s command and defiantly went up into the hill country.
But they dared to go up the ridge of the hill country, even though the ark of the Lord’s covenant and Moses did not leave the camp.
‘You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he became their enemy and fought against them.
They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying, ‘Let’s go to the place the Lord promised, for we were wrong.’
‘But the person who acts defiantly, whether native or resident foreigner, blasphemes the Lord. That person is to be cut off from his people.
The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the Lord your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
‘But you were not willing to go up. You rebelled against the command of the Lord your God.