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Deuteronomy 9:13

in Deuteronomy 9

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

KJV

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

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This verse in Deuteronomy 9

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying

on Deuteronomy 9:13-14

Let me alone, that I may destroy them names the one thing standing in the way, and the older commentators read the words as leaving Moses his opening rather than closing it. The offer that follows, I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they, is the promise made to Abraham at Genesis 12:2 held out to one man over the ruins of his people. Moses declines it here and declines it a second time at Numbers 14:12 when it is made again after Kadesh.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

By this it appeared how heinous their sin was, for God is never angry with any above what there is cause for, as men often are. Moses himself, though a friend and favourite, trembled at the revelation of God's wrath from heaven against their ungodliness and unrighteousness (

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Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying,.... After he had given him the two tables, and before his departure from the mount: I have seen this people; took notice of them, their ways, and their works: and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people; unwilling to submit to, and bear the yoke of my commandments; see Exo 32:9.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֥אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֵלַ֣יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • רָאִ֙יתִי֙I have seen

    raitiH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעָ֣םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • וְהִנֵּ֥הand there!

    vehinehH2009 →843 times

  • עַם־[is] a people

    ʾam-H5971 →1873 times

  • קְשֵׁה־stiff of

    kesheh-H7186 →36 times

  • עֹ֖רֶףneck

    ʾorefH6203 →33 times

  • הֽוּא׃it

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

16 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 32:9The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.7 worksDeuteronomy 9:6Understand, 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.5 worksDeuteronomy 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.4 works2 Kings 17:14But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.4 worksDeuteronomy 31:27For 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!3 worksActs 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.3 works
The other 10 cross-references, with their words ▾
Psalms 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.3 worksRomans 10:21But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”3 worksJeremiah 7:11Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.2 worksHosea 6:10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.2 worksMalachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.2 worksPsalms 50:7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.2 worksJeremiah 13:27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”2 worksGenesis 18:21I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”2 worksGenesis 11:5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.2 worksNehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 10:16

    Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 4:4

      Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to…

    • Deuteronomy 30:6

      The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

    • Leviticus 26:41

      and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

    • Colossians 2:11

      In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

    • Romans 2:28–29

      A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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!

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Acts 7:51

      You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 32:9

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

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

Where this verse is studied

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About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 9 →

This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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