Isaiah 48:4

Modern English Version

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

Cross References

2 Kings 17:14

But they would not listen. They stiffened their necks, like the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

2 Chronicles 30:8

So now do not harden your necks as your fathers, but give yourselves to the Lord and come to the sanctuary that He has consecrated permanently. Serve the Lord your God so that His burning anger might turn away from you all.

2 Chronicles 36:13

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

Nehemiah 9:28

“But after they had rest, they again did evil before You. Therefore You abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to You, You heard from heaven, and many times You delivered them according to Your mercies.

Psalm 75:5

Do not lift up your horn on high; do not speak with a stiff neck.”

Psalm 78:8

and that they may not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart aright, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Exodus 32:9

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

Exodus 33:3

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. However, I will not go up in your midst, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

Exodus 33:5

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for one moment, I might destroy you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, so that I may know what I will do to you.’ ”

Exodus 9:7

And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the livestock of the Israelites was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, so that he did not let the people go.

Proverbs 29:1

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

Isaiah 30:9

for this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who refuse to listen to the law of the Lord;

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness;

Jeremiah 19:15

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks so that they might not heed My words.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. And you had a harlot’s forehead; you refused to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 5:3

O  Lord, are not Your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they did not listen to Me, nor incline their ear, but hardened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

Ezekiel 2:4

And as for the impudent and obstinate children, I am sending you to them. And you shall say to them, “Thus says the Lord God.”

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne and they took his glory from him.

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 because of your hardness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself on the day of wrath when the righteous judgment of God will be revealed,

Deuteronomy 10:16

Therefore, circumcise your heart, and do not be stubborn anymore.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, even now, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death?

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.