2 Kings 17:14

and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,

Young's Literal 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 testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, 'Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'

15and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them;

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Cross References

Exodus 16:28And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'How long have ye refused to keep My commands, and My laws?

Deuteronomy 1:32'And in this thing ye are not stedfast in Jehovah your God,

2 Chronicles 24:19And He sendeth among them prophets, to bring them back unto Jehovah, and they testify against them, and they have not given ear;

Nehemiah 9:29and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they — they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, — which man doth and hath lived in them — and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened.

Psalms 78:32With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders.

Proverbs 29:1A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

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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