Jeremiah 17:23

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“Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.”

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BSBPD

“Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“But they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 17:23 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Judges 6:10And I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”
  2. Psalms 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
  3. Proverbs 1:3and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.
  4. Proverbs 1:5let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
  5. Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
  6. Proverbs 8:10Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
  7. Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
  8. Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
  9. Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
  10. Jeremiah 6:8Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
  11. Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
  12. Jeremiah 7:26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
  13. Jeremiah 7:28Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
  14. Jeremiah 11:10They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
  15. Jeremiah 16:11Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
  16. 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.’”
  17. Jeremiah 32:33They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
  18. Jeremiah 35:15Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
  19. Ezekiel 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
  20. Ezekiel 20:16because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
  21. Ezekiel 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
  22. Zephaniah 3:7I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.
  23. Zechariah 7:11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
  24. Zechariah 7:12They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

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