Nehemiah 9:16

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Nehemiah 9:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

15 In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.

16 But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.

17 They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

18 Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

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Nehemiah 9:10

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

Nehemiah 9:29

You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

Exodus 32:9

The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:6

Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:13

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:23

And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

Deuteronomy 9:24

You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Psalms 78:8

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalms 78:9

The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

Psalms 78:10

They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

Psalms 78:11

They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

Psalms 78:12

He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Psalms 78:13

He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

Psalms 78:14

He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

Psalms 78:15

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

Psalms 78:16

He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

Psalms 78:17

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Psalms 78:18

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Psalms 78:19

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78:20

When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

Psalms 78:21

Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

Psalms 78:22

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

Psalms 78:23

Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

Psalms 78:24

He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

Psalms 78:25

Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

Psalms 78:26

He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

Psalms 78:27

He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

Psalms 78:28

He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Psalms 78:29

So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

Psalms 78:30

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

Psalms 78:31

God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

Psalms 78:32

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

Psalms 78:33

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Psalms 78:34

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

Psalms 78:35

And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

Psalms 78:36

But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

Psalms 78:37

Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

Psalms 78:38

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalms 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Psalms 78:40

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Psalms 78:41

Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 78:42

They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalms 78:43

when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Psalms 78:44

He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

Psalms 78:45

He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Psalms 78:46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78:47

He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Psalms 78:48

He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Psalms 78:49

He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.

Psalms 78:50

He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

Psalms 78:51

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

Psalms 78:52

He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

Psalms 78:53

He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

Psalms 78:54

He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

Psalms 78:55

He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Psalms 78:56

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

Psalms 78:57

They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

Psalms 78:58

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Psalms 78:59

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Psalms 78:60

He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

Psalms 78:61

He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

Psalms 78:62

He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.

Psalms 78:63

Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

Psalms 78:64

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

Psalms 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

Psalms 78:66

He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

Psalms 78:67

He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

Psalms 78:68

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalms 78:69

He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

Psalms 78:70

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 78:71

from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

Psalms 78:72

So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.

Psalms 106:6

We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 2:31

You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?

Acts 7:51

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

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 Kings 17:14

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

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.

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.

Psalms 95:8

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

Psalms 95:9

where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

Psalms 95:10

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

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 19:15

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”

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 3:13

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Hebrews 3:15

As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”

Exodus 15:26

saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.

Psalms 81:8

Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!

Psalms 81:11

But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

Psalms 81:12

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

Psalms 81:13

If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,

Psalms 81:14

how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

Isaiah 48:18

If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.