13Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
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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.
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.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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?
And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-29)That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness , Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed in the wilderness: “ Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God (Deut. 9:7); so far from purchasing his favour, thou hast many a time laid thyself open to his displeasure.” Their f…
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