"Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:" — Deuteronomy 9:13

Deuteronomy 9:13 · KJV

“Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:”

— Deuteronomy 9:13

And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted {themselves}; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

Verse 14

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

Deuteronomy 9 — Context

And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, {that} the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, {even} the tables of the covenant.

Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant {were} in my two hands.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:6

Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou {art} a stiffnecked people.

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

2 Kings 17:14

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.

Exodus 32:9-10

And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in {his} wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger {from his right}, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud}

Hosea 6:10

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there {is} the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, {and} thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when {shall it} once {be}? {when...: Heb. after when yet?}