2 Kings 17:14

Neuerthelesse they would not obey, but hardened their neckes, like to the neckes of their fathers, that did not beleeue in the Lord their God.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

13Notwithstanding the Lord testified to Israel, and to Iudah by all the Prophets, and by all the Seers, saying, Turne from your euill wayes, and keepe my commandements and my statutes, according to all the Lawe, which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my seruants the Prophets.

15And they refused his statutes and his couenant, that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies (wherewith he witnessed vnto them) and they followed vanitie, and became vaine, and followed the heathen that were round about them: concerning whome the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:28And the Lord sayde vnto Moses, Howe long refuse yee to keepe my commandements, and my lawes?

Deuteronomy 1:32Yet for all this ye did not beleeue the Lord your God,

2 Chronicles 24:19And God sent Prophets amog the, to bring them againe vnto the Lord: and they made protestation among them, but they would not heare.

Nehemiah 9:29And protestedst among them that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy Lawe: but they behaued them selues proudely, and hearkened not vnto thy commandements, but sinned against thy iudgements (which a man should doe and liue in them) and pulled away the shoulder, and were stiffenecked, and woulde not heare.

Psalms 78:32For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.

Proverbs 29:1A man that hardeneth his necke when he is rebuked, shall suddenly be destroyed and can not be cured.

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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