Exodus 4:21

New Century Version

The Lord said to Moses, “When you get back to Egypt, do all the miracles I have given you the power to do. Show them to the king of Egypt. But I will make the king very stubborn, and he will not let the people go.

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

The Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years.”

1 Kings 22:22

“The Lord asked, ‘How will you do it?’ “The spirit answered, ‘I will go to Ahab’s prophets and make them tell lies.’ “So the Lord said, ‘You will succeed in tricking him. Go and do it.’ ”

Psalm 105:25

He caused the Egyptians to hate his people and to make plans against his servants.

Psalm 78:43

They forgot the signs he did in Egypt and his wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Exodus 10:1

The Lord said to Moses, “Go to the king of Egypt. I have made him and his officers stubborn so I could show them my powerful miracles.

Exodus 10:20

But the Lord caused the king to be stubborn again, and he did not let the Israelites go.

Exodus 10:27

But the Lord made the king stubborn again, so he refused to let them go.

Exodus 11:10

Moses and Aaron did all these great miracles in front of the king. But the Lord made him stubborn, and the king would not let the Israelites leave his country.

Exodus 11:9

The Lord had told Moses, “The king will not listen to you and Aaron so that I may do many miracles in the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 14:17

I will make the Egyptians stubborn so they will chase the Israelites, but I will be honored when I defeat the king and all of his chariot drivers and chariots.

Exodus 14:4

I will make the king stubborn again so he will chase after them, but I will defeat the king and his army. This will bring honor to me, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” The Israelites did just as they were told.

Exodus 14:8

The Lord made the king of Egypt stubborn, so he chased the Israelites, who were leaving victoriously.

Exodus 3:19

“But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go. Only a great power will force him to let you go,

Exodus 3:20

so I will use my great power against Egypt. I will strike Egypt with all the miracles that will happen in that land. After I do that, he will let you go.

Exodus 7:13

Still the king was stubborn and refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.

Exodus 7:3

But I will make the king stubborn. I will do many miracles in Egypt,

Exodus 8:11

The frogs will leave you, your houses, your officers, and your people. They will remain only in the Nile.”

Exodus 8:15

But when the king saw that they were free of the frogs, he became stubborn again. He did not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.

Exodus 8:32

But the king became stubborn again and did not let the people go.

Exodus 9:12

But the Lord made the king stubborn, so he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.

Exodus 9:35

So the king became stubborn and refused to let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said through Moses.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the minds of these people dumb. Shut their ears. Cover their eyes. Otherwise, they might really understand what they see with their eyes and hear with their ears. They might really understand in their minds and come back to me and be healed.”

Isaiah 63:17

Lord, why are you making us wander from your ways? Why do you make us stubborn so that we don’t honor you? For our sake come back to us, your servants, who belong to you.

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes, and he has closed their minds. Otherwise they would see with their eyes and understand in their minds and come back to me and be healed.”

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do.

Romans 9:18

So God shows mercy where he wants to show mercy, and he makes stubborn the people he wants to make stubborn.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To those who are lost, we are the smell of death that brings death, but to those who are being saved, we are the smell of life that brings life. So who is able to do this work?

Deuteronomy 2:36

We defeated Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Ravine, and we defeated the town in the ravine, and even as far as Gilead. No town was too strong for us; the Lord our God gave us all of them.

Joshua 11:20

The Lord made those people stubborn so they would fight against Israel and he could completely destroy them without mercy. This is what the Lord had commanded Moses to do.

1 Peter 2:8

Also, he is “a stone that causes people to stumble, a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they do not obey what God says, which is what God planned to happen to them.