Psalm 78:8

New American Bible - revised edition

They were not to be like their ancestors, a rebellious and defiant generation, A generation whose heart was not constant, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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 12:14

He did evil, for he had not set his heart to seek the Lord.

2 Chronicles 19:3

Yet some good has been found in you, since you have removed the asherahs from the land and have set your heart to seek God.” Judges Appointed.

2 Chronicles 20:33

Nevertheless, the high places did not disappear and the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 30:19

all who have set their heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of their ancestors, even though they are not clean as holiness requires.”

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not be like your ancestors and your kin who acted treacherously toward the Lord, the God of their ancestors, so that he handed them over to desolation, as you yourselves now see.

Job 11:13

If you set your heart aright and stretch out your hands toward him,

Psalm 106:7

Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders. They did not remember your manifold mercy; they defied the Most High at the Red Sea.

Psalm 68:6

Father of the fatherless, defender of widows— God in his holy abode,

Psalm 78:37

Their hearts were not constant toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland.

Psalm 78:56

But they tested and rebelled against God Most High, his decrees they did not observe.

Exodus 32:9

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

Exodus 33:3

to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I myself will not go up in your company, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise I might consume you on the way.

Exodus 33:5

The Lord spoke to Moses: Speak to the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. Were I to go up in your company even for a moment, I would destroy you. Now off with your ornaments! Let me think what to do with you.

Exodus 34:9

Then he said, “If I find favor with you, Lord, please, Lord, come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and claim us as your own.” Religious Laws.

Isaiah 30:9

For this is a rebellious people, deceitful children, Children who refuse to listen to the instruction of the Lord;

Ezekiel 20:18

Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Do not follow the statutes of your parents. Do not keep their ordinances. Do not defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20:8

But they rebelled and refused to listen to me; none of them threw away the detestable things that held their eyes, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I considered pouring out my fury and spending my anger against them there in the land of Egypt.

Acts 11:23

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord in firmness of heart,

Acts 7:51

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

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 4:4

but you, who held fast to the Lord, your God, are all alive today.

Deuteronomy 9:13

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

Deuteronomy 9:24

You have been rebels against the Lord from the day I first knew you.

Joshua 22:15

When these came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead, they said to them:

1 Samuel 8:8

They are acting toward you just as they have acted from the day I brought them up from Egypt to this very day, deserting me to serve other gods.