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Nehemiah 9

Neh. 9:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But they and our fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
dealt proudly
zuwd (Hebrew #2102)
a primitive root; to seethe; figuratively, to be insolent
KJV usage: be proud, deal proudly, presume, (come) presumptuously, sod.
Pronounce: zood
Origin: or (by permutation) ziyd {zeed}
, and hardened
qashah (Hebrew #7185)
properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications)
KJV usage: be cruel, be fiercer, make grievous, be ((ask a), be in, have, seem, would) hard(-en, (labour), -ly, thing), be sore, (be, make) stiff(-en, (-necked)).
Pronounce: kaw-shaw'
Origin: a primitive root
g their necks
`oreph (Hebrew #6203)
the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)
KJV usage: back ((stiff-)neck((-ed).
Pronounce: o-ref'
Origin: from 6202
, and hearkened
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
not to thy commandments
mitsvah (Hebrew #4687)
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
KJV usage: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
Pronounce: mits-vaw'
Origin: from 6680
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dealt.
Neh. 9:10,29• 10and didst show signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them, and thou didst make thee a name, as it is this day.
29And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
(Neh. 9:10,29)
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Ex. 32:9• 9And Jehovah said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people. (Ex. 32:9)
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Deut. 9:6,13,23‑24,27• 6Know therefore that Jehovah thy God doth not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people.
13And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
23And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you, ye rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.
27Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin;
(Deut. 9:6,13,23‑24,27)
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Deut. 32:15• 15Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked{HR}—Thou art waxen fat,{HR}Thou art grown thick,{HR}And thou art covered with fatness;{HR}—He gave up God who made him,{HR}And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.{HR} (Deut. 32:15)
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Psa. 78:8‑72• 8And might not be as their fathers,{HR}A stubborn and rebellious generation,{HR}A generation that set (prepared) not their hearts,{HR}And whose spirit was not steadfast with God (El).
9The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen,{HR}Turned in the day of battle.
10They kept not God's covenant{HR}And in his law refused to walk;
11And they forgot his deeds{HR}And his wondrous works{HR}Which he caused them to see.
12In the sight of their fathers{HR}He wrought wonders in the land of Egypt,{HR}The field of Zoan.
13He clave the sea and caused them to pass through{HR}And made the waters to stand as a heap;
14And he led them with a cloud by day{HR}And all the night with light of fire.
15He clave rocks in the wilderness,{HR}And gave drink as the depths abundantly,
16He brought streams from the rock (crag){HR}And caused waters to come down like the rivers.
17Yet they still went on to sin against him,{HR}To rebel against the Most High in the desert (dry);
18And they tempted God in their hearts{HR}By asking food for their lust (souls).
19And they spoke against God; they said,{HR}Shall God be able to furnish a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, he smote the rock,{HR}And waters gushed out,{HR}And streams overflowed;{HR}Can he give bread also,{HR}Or provide flesh for his people?
21Therefore Jehovah heard and was wroth;{HR}And fire was kindled against Jacob,{HR}And anger also went up against Israel;
22Because they believed not in God{HR}And trusted not in his salvation.
23Yet he commanded the skies above,{HR}And opened the doors of heaven,
24And he rained upon them manna to eat,{HR}And had given them the corn of the heavens.
25Man did eat the bread of the mighty;{HR}He sent them provision to the full.
26He led forth the east [wind] in the heavens,{HR}And by his strength guided the south [wind],
27And he rained flesh upon them as dust{HR}And winged fowl as sand of the sea,
28And let it fall in the midst of the camp{HR}Round about their habitations.
29And they did eat and were well filled.{HR}He brought to them their desire;
30They were not estranged from their desire;{HR}Their food [was] yet in their mouths,
31When God's anger went up against them and slew their fattest,{HR}And smote down the chosen of Israel.
32For all this they sinned still,{HR}And believed not in his wondrous works;
33He consumed their days in vanity,{HR}And their years in terror.
34When he slew them, then they enquired after him,{HR}And turned and sought God (El) eagerly.
35And they remembered that God [was] their rock,{HR}And God Most High their redeemer.
36And they flattered (enticed) him with their mouth,{HR}And lied to him with their tongue.
37And their heart was not firm with him,{HR}Nor were they steadfast in his covenant.
38But he mercifully forgave iniquity, and destroyed not,{HR}And often withdrew his anger and did not arouse all his wrath;
39And he remembered that they [were] flesh,{HR}A wind passing and not coming again.
40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness{HR}And grieve him in the desert!
41And they turned again and tempted God ,{HR}And limited the Holy One of Israel.
42They remembered not his hand,{HR}The day when he delivered them from oppression,
43How he set his signs in Egypt{HR}And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
44And turned their rivers to blood,{HR}And their streams that they could not drink.
45He sent among them dogflies, and they devoured them;{HR}And frogs, and they destroyed them.
46And he gave their increase to the caterpillar,{HR}And their labour to the locust.
47He killed their vines with the hail,{HR}And their sycamore trees with the frost,
48And delivered their cattle to the hail{HR}And their flocks to the lightnings.
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,{HR}Wrath, and indignation, and distress,{HR}By sending angels of woes.
50He made a path for his anger,{HR}He withheld their soul from death,{HR}And their life he gave over to the pestilence;
51And he smote every first-born in Egypt,{HR}The first fruits of vigour in the tents of Ham.
52And he made his people go as the sheep,{HR}And guided them as the flock in the wilderness;
53And he led them safely, and they feared not;{HR}And the sea covered their enemies.
54And he brought them to the border of his holiness,{HR}This mountain his right hand purchased,
55And drove out before them nations,{HR}And allotted them by a line [for] an inheritance,{HR}And caused the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents..
56But they tempted and resisted God Most High,{HR}And kept not his testimonies,
57And revolted, and dealt treacherously like their fathers;{HR}They were turned like a deceitful bow.
58And they provoked him to anger with their high places,{HR}And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59God heard and was wroth{HR}And greatly abhorred Israel.
60And he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,{HR}His tent he pitched among men,
61And gave his strength into captivity,{HR}And his beauty into the oppressor's hand.
62And he gave over to the sword his people,{HR}And was wroth with his inheritance.
63The fire consumed their chosen,{HR}And their maidens were not praised in song;
64Their priests fell by the sword,{HR}And their widows wept not.
65And the Lord awoke as a sleeper,{HR}As a mighty man shouting aloud from wine;
66And he smote his adversaries backward{HR}And put them to everlasting reproach.
67And he rejected the tent of Joseph,{HR}And the tribe of Ephraim did not choose;
68And he chose the tribe of Judah,{HR}The mount Zion which he loved.
69And he built his sanctuary like high [places],{HR}Like the earth he founded forever.
70And he chose David his servant,{HR}And took him from the sheepfold;
71From behind suckling [ewes] he brought him{HR}To feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance.
72And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart,{HR}And in the skill of his hands he led them.
(Psa. 78:8‑72)
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Psa. 106:6• 6We have sinned with our fathers,{HR}We have been perverse,{HR}We have done wickedly. (Psa. 106:6)
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Isa. 63:10• 10But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. (Isa. 63:10)
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Jer. 2:31• 31O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee? (Jer. 2:31)
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Acts 7:51• 51Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers so ye. (Acts 7:51)
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Deut. 31:27• 27for I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck. Lo, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death! (Deut. 31:27)
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2 Kings 17:14• 14But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God. (2 Kings 17:14)
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2 Chron. 30:8• 8Now, be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever, and serve Jehovah your God, that the fierceness of his anger may turn away from you. (2 Chron. 30:8)
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2 Chron. 36:13• 13And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take oath by God; and he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from returning to Jehovah the God of Israel. (2 Chron. 36:13)
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Psa. 95:8‑10• 8Harden not your heart like Meribah,{HR}Like the day of Massah in the wilderness;
9When your fathers tempted me,{HR}Proved me, and saw my work.
10Forty years long was I disgusted with the generation and said,{HR}A people erring in heart [are] they,{HR}And they have not known my ways,
(Psa. 95:8‑10)
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Prov. 29:1• 1He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck,{HR}Shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy. (Prov. 29:1)
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Isa. 48:4• 4Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; (Isa. 48:4)
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Jer. 19:15• 15Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words. (Jer. 19:15)
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Rom. 2:5• 5But according to thy hardness and unrepentant heart thou treasurest to thyself wrath in [the] day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment, (Rom. 2:5)
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Heb. 3:13,15• 13But encourage yourselves each day while it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by [the] deceitfulness of sin.
15In that it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation.
(Heb. 3:13,15)
hearkened.
There were two things to which the Israelites did not duly give heed, else they had not done as they did.
The word of God they heard, but they gave no heed to God's commandments: and the works of God they saw, but were not mindful of his wonders.
Had they really considered them as miracles, they would have obeyed from a principle of faith and holy fear: had they duly considered them as mercies, they would have obeyed from a principle of gratitude and holy love.
 So far, it is a tale of grace—of a giving God. He had chosen Abraham, redeemed His people, guided, spoken to, and sustained them. All had been given from the heart of God, in His 'own pure and sovereign grace. They turn, in the next place, to their side of the picture. … (vv. 16, 17). They confessed, in a word, pride, stubbornness, willful disobedience, forgetfulness of the displays of God's power in their midst, and apostasy. On God's side there had been mercy, long-suffering, and tender care; and on theirs, ingratitude, and almost every form of evil and corruption. (Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 9 by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But they, ourc fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

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Or "they and our."

W. Kelly Translation

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But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)