Nehemiah 9:16

New American Bible - revised edition

But they, our ancestors, proved to be insolent; they were obdurate and did not obey your commandments.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:14

But they did not listen. They grew as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who had not believed in the Lord, their God.

2 Chronicles 29:6

Our ancestors acted treacherously and did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, our God. They abandoned him, turned away their faces from the Lord’s dwelling, and turned their backs on him.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; stretch out your hands to the Lord and come to his sanctuary that he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord, your God, that he may turn his burning anger from you.

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart rather than return to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 9:10

You worked signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his servants and the people of his land, Because you knew of their insolence toward them; thus you made for yourself a name even to this day.

Nehemiah 9:29

You bore witness against them, to bring them back to your law. But they were insolent and would not obey your commandments; They sinned against your ordinances, which give life to those who keep them. They turned stubborn backs, stiffened their necks, and would not obey.

Psalm 106:6

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong and are guilty.

Psalm 81:8

In distress you called and I rescued you; I answered you in secret with thunder; At the waters of Meribah I tested you:

Exodus 15:26

He said: If you listen closely to the voice of the Lord, your God, and do what is right in his eyes: if you heed his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I afflicted the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.

Exodus 32:9

I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are, continued the Lord to Moses.

Proverbs 29:1

Those stiff-necked in the face of reproof in an instant will be shattered beyond cure.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you would attend to my commandments, your peace would be like a river, your vindication like the waves of the sea,

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are stubborn and that your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead bronze,

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; So he turned to become their enemy, and warred against them.

Jeremiah 19:15

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I will bring upon this city all the evil I have spoken against it, because they have become stubborn and have not obeyed my words.

Jeremiah 2:31

You people of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I become a wilderness to Israel, a land of gloom? Why then do my people say, “We have moved on, we will not come to you any more”?

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.

Ezekiel 5:6

But it rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes more than the foreign lands around it; they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always oppose the holy Spirit; you are just like your ancestors.

Romans 2:5

By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God,

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I already know how rebellious and stiff-necked you will be. Why, even now, while I am alive among you, you have been rebels against the Lord! How much more, then, after I am dead!

Deuteronomy 32:15

So Jacob ate and was satisfied, Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you became fat and gross and gorged. They forsook the God who made them and scorned the Rock of their salvation.

Deuteronomy 5:29

Would that they might always be of such a mind, to fear me and to keep all my commandments! Then they and their descendants would prosper forever.

Deuteronomy 9:13

I have seen now how stiff-necked this people is, the Lord said to me.

Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look upon the stubbornness of this people nor upon their wickedness and sin,

Deuteronomy 9:6

Know this, therefore: it is not because of your justice that the Lord, your God, is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people. The Golden Calf.

Hebrews 3:13

Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.

Hebrews 3:15

for it is said: “Oh, that today you would hear his voice: ‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion.’”