Psalm 78:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and that they should not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:14

They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

2 Chronicles 12:14

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

2 Chronicles 19:3

Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the sacred poles out of the land and have set your heart to seek God.”

2 Chronicles 20:33

Yet the high places were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 30:19

who set their hearts to seek God, the Lord the God of their ancestors, even though not in accordance with the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not be like your ancestors and your kindred, who were faithless to the Lord God of their ancestors, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

Job 11:13

“If you direct your heart rightly, you will stretch out your hands toward him.

Psalm 106:7

Our ancestors, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.

Psalm 68:6

God gives the desolate a home to live in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious live in a parched land.

Psalm 78:37

Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tested the Most High God and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees

Exodus 32:9

The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are.

Exodus 33:3

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up among you, or I would consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

Exodus 33:5

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, and I will decide what to do to you.’ ”

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, my Lord, I pray, let my Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Isaiah 30:9

For they are a rebellious people, faithless children, children who will not hear the instruction of the Lord;

Ezekiel 20:18

I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20:8

But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; not one of them cast away the detestable things on which their eyes feasted, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Acts 11:23

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast devotion,

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know well how rebellious and stubborn you are. If you already have been so rebellious toward the Lord while I am still alive among you, how much more after my death!

Deuteronomy 4:4

while those of you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today.

Deuteronomy 9:13

Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn people.

Deuteronomy 9:24

You have been rebellious against the Lord as long as he has known you.

Joshua 22:15

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

1 Samuel 8:8

Just as they have done to me from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you.