Jeremiah 7:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.”
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“Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.”
King James Version · Public Domain“yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 7:26 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 8:20Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
- 1 Kings 14:9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
- 1 Kings 14:22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
- 2 Kings 17:14But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
- 2 Kings 17:15They 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.
- 2 Chronicles 30:8Now 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 33:10And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.
- 2 Chronicles 33:23but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
- Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
- Nehemiah 9:17They 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.
- Nehemiah 9:29You 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.
- Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
- Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
- Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 6:17I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’
- 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.
- Jeremiah 9:13And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
- Jeremiah 11:8Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
- Jeremiah 16:12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- Jeremiah 17:23Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.
- 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.’”
- Jeremiah 22:21I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
- Jeremiah 25:3“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
- Jeremiah 25:7‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’
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