2 Kings 17:14

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2 Kings 17:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”

13 Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”

14 But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

15 They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

16 They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

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Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

Proverbs 29:1

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

Isaiah 48:4

For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Romans 2:4

Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

Romans 2:5

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Hebrews 3:7

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,

Hebrews 3:8

do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

Deuteronomy 1:32

But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

Psalms 78:22

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Psalms 78:32

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

Psalms 106:24

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

Hebrews 3:12

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.