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Jeremiah 7:26

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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ASV

yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

KJV

Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְל֤וֹאve.Lo'and notH3808 →
שָׁמְעוּ֙sha.me.'Uthey listenedH8085 →
אֵלַ֔י'e.Laito meH413 →
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
הִטּ֖וּhi.Tuthey inclinedH5186 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
אָזְנָ֑ם'a.ze.Namear theirH241 →
וַיַּקְשׁוּ֙vai.yak.Shuand they stiffenedH7185 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
עָרְפָּ֔ם'a.re.Pamneck theirH6203 →
הֵרֵ֖עוּhe.Re.'uthey did evilH7489 →
מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃me.'a.vo.Tammore than ancestors theirH1 →

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Jeremiah 6:10To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.Hebrews 3:8do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,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.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.Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.Matthew 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.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 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 17:23Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.Malachi 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’Ezekiel 20:30Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?Jeremiah 34:14Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.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 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.Daniel 9:6We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land.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.’Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.Jeremiah 29:19I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”

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