Exodus 32:9

And again, the Lord said to Moses: “I discern that this people is stiff-necked.

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In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

In Context

8They have quickly withdrawn from the way which you revealed to them. And they have made for themselves a molten calf, and they have worshiped it. And immolating victims to it, they have said: ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who led you away from the land of Egypt.’”

10Release me, so that my fury may be enraged against them, and I may destroy them, and then I will make of you a great nation.”

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Cross References

Exodus 33:3and so that you may enter into a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up with you, since you are a stiff-necked people, lest perhaps I may destroy you on the way.”

Exodus 34:9he said: “If I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, I beg you to walk with us, (for the people are stiff-necked) and take away our iniquities and our sin, and so possess us.”

Deuteronomy 9:13And again, the Lord said to me: ‘I discern that this people is stiff-necked.

Deuteronomy 31:27For I know your contentiousness and your very stiff neck. Even while I am still living and entering with you, you have always acted with contention against the Lord. How much more so when I will be dead?

Nehemiah 9:16Yet truly, they and our fathers acted arrogantly, and they hardened their necks, and they did not listen to your commandments.

Psalms 78:8Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, for we have become exceedingly poor.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:8-15

The Intercession of Moses. ( b. c. 1491.) 7 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a… Read the whole commentary →

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