Jeremiah 7:26
but they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
27Therefore thou shalt speak this word to them;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:20As also the other nations which the Lord God destroys before your face, so shall ye perish, because ye hearkened not to the voice of the Lord your God.
1 Kings 14:22And Roboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he provoked him in all the things which their fathers did in their sins which they sinned.
2 Kings 17:15And they kept not any of his testimonies which he charged them; and they walked after vanities, and became vain, and after the nations round about them, concerning which the Lord had charged them not to do accordingly.
2 Chronicles 33:10And the Lord spoke to Manasses, and to his people: but they hearkened not.
Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers behaved proudly, and hardened their neck, and did not hearken to thy commandments,
Nehemiah 9:29And thou didst testify against them, to bring them back to thy law: but they hearkened not, but sinned against thy commandments and thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them; and they turned their back, and hardened their neck, and heard not.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:22-29
Obedience Better than Sacrifice. ( b. c. 606.) 21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 24 But… Read the whole commentary →