2 Kings 17:14

notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in the LORD their God;

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

13yet the LORD forewarned Israel, and Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and of every seer, saying: 'Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets';

15and they rejected His statutes, and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies wherewith He testified against them; and they went after things of nought, and became nought, and after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them;

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Cross References

Exodus 16:28And the LORD said unto Moses: 'How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?

Deuteronomy 1:32Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD your God,

2 Chronicles 24:19Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them back unto the LORD; and they admonished them, but they would not give ear.

Nehemiah 9:29and didst forewarn them, that Thou mightest bring them back unto Thy law; yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto Thy commandments, but sinned against Thine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them, and presented a stubborn shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Psalms 78:32For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His wondrous works.

Proverbs 29:1He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be broken, and that 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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