Self-will

How Nave’s arranged it

• (Stubbornness)
• Forbidden2 Chronicles 30:8Psalms 75:5
• Proceeds from
• Unbelief2 Kings 17:14
• PrideNehemiah 9:16Nehemiah 9:29
• An evil heartJeremiah 7:24
• God knowsIsaiah 48:4
• Exhibited in
• Refusing to listen to GodProverbs 1:24
• Refusing to listen to the messengers of God1 Samuel 8:19Jeremiah 44:16Zechariah 7:11
• Refusing to walk in the ways of GodNehemiah 9:17Isaiah 42:24Psalms 78:10
• Refusing to listen to (obey) parentsDeuteronomy 21:18Deuteronomy 21:19

The passages, in Bible order (41)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 49:6

   May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 49:61 voice

   “Into their secret council, etc. - Jacob here exculpates himself from all participation in the guilt of Simeon and Levi in the murder of the Shechemites. He most solemnly declares that he knew nothing of the confederacy by which it was executed, nor of the secret council in which it was plotted.

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2. Exodus 32:9

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

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3. Exodus 34:9

   “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 34:92 voices

   “These things God had already promised Moses; and yet he prays for them, not as doubting the sincerity of God's grants, but as one solicitous for the ratification of them. But it is a strange plea he urges, for it is a stiff-necked people - God had given this as a reason why he would not go along with them, chap. xxxiii, 3.

   “Moses bowed . . . and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.

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4. 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.

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5. Deuteronomy 9:13

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

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6. Deuteronomy 9:27

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

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:271 voice

   “Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - As if he had said: “These are their descendants, and the covenant was made with those patriarchs in behalf of these.” God bestows many blessings on comparatively worthless persons, either for the sake of their pious ancestors, or on account of the religious people with whom they are connected; therefore union with the Church of God is a blessing of no common magnitude. The reader will find the grand subject of this chapter explained at large in the notes on Exodus 31 and 32, to which he is particularly desired to refer.

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7. Deuteronomy 21:18

   If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

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8. Deuteronomy 21:19

   his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 21:191 voice

   “And it cannot reasonably be supposed that both would agree without the son's abominable and incorrigible wickedness, in which case it seems a righteous law, because the crime of rebellion against his own parents did so fully signify what a pernicious member he would be in the commonwealth of Israel, who had dissolved all his natural obligations.

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9. Deuteronomy 21:21

   Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

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10. 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!

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 31:271 voice

    “While I am yet alive - ye have been rebellious - Such was the disposition of this people to act contrary to moral goodness that Moses felt himself justified in inferring what would take place from what had already happened. 1. Never was a people more fully and faithfully warned, and from this very circumstance we may see that they were under no fatal constraining necessity to commit sin against God; they might have avoided it, but they would not.

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11. Judges 2:19

    But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

    ›Commentary on Judges 2:192 voices

    “Returned - To their former, and usual course. Their fathers - In Egypt, or in the wilderness. Their own doings - That is, from their evil practices, which he calls their own, because they were agreeable to their own natures, which in all mankind are deeply and universally corrupted, and because they were familiar and customary to them.

    “An attentive consideration of them, therefore, is of the greatest importance to a right understanding of the strange and varying phases of Israelitish history, from the death of Joshua till the establishment of the monarchy. served Baalim--The plural is used to include all the gods of the country.

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12. 1 Samuel 8:19

    Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.

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13. 1 Samuel 15:19–23

    So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”

    ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 15:19–232 voices

    “Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I have performed the commandment of the Lord--Saul was either blinded by a partial and delusive self-love, or he was, in his declaration to Samuel, acting the part of a bold and artful hypocrite. He professed to have fulfilled the divine command, and that the blame of any defects in the execution lay with the people.

    “And when Saul was charged with negligence and a breach of the law, he did not benefit his cause by alleging his conduct on other matters. For a defence on one count will not operate to obtain an acquittal on another count; but if all things should be done according to law and justice, a man must defend himself in those particulars wherein he is accused, and must either disprove the past, or else confess it with the promise that he will desist, and do so no more.

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14. 1 Samuel 15:23

    For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”

    ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 15:232 voices

    “Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I have performed the commandment of the Lord--Saul was either blinded by a partial and delusive self-love, or he was, in his declaration to Samuel, acting the part of a bold and artful hypocrite. He professed to have fulfilled the divine command, and that the blame of any defects in the execution lay with the people.

    “24. What is it that those who resist and refuse to comply are likened by the prophet to diviners and idolaters, except that diviners strove to know divine things and to divine hidden matters, while idolaters subjected themselves to figments by venerating them? But those who resist the commands of their superiors resist precisely because they judge that they know the divine will better.

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15. 2 Samuel 24:4

    Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army departed from the presence of the king to count the troops of Israel.

    ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 24:41 voice

    “Satan was the active mover, while God only withdrew His supporting grace, and the great tempter prevailed against the king. The order was given to Joab, who, though not generally restrained by religious scruples, did not fail to present, in strong terms (see on 1Ch 21:3), the sin and danger of this measure.

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16. 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.

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 17:142 voices

    “Notwithstanding, they would not hear,.... Their instructions, advice, and admonitions, and obey them: but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God: as Terah and Nahor, who were idolaters; or rather, their fathers in the wilderness, that made and served the calf, and those that rebelled against Moses and Aaron; it is a metaphor taken from oxen, that will not submit their necks to the yoke, but draw back from it, or cast it off, see Act 7:51.

    “To “harden” or “stiffen the neck” is a common Hebrew expression significative of unbending obstinacy and determined self-will. See the marginal references.

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