2 Kings 17:14

But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

In Context

13And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.

15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:28And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do ye refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Deuteronomy 1:32But In this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God,

2 Chronicles 24:19And he sent prophets among them to bring them again to Jehovah, and they testified against them; but they would not give ear.

Nehemiah 9:29And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Psalms 78:32For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;

Proverbs 29:1He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:8-24

The Wickedness of Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built… Read the whole commentary →

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