4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
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Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. …
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)We may observe here, I. The hypocritical profession which many of the Jews made of religion and relation to God. To those who made such a profession the prophet is here ordered to address himself, for their conviction and humiliation, that they might own God’s justice in what he had brought upon them. Now observe here, 1. How high their profession of religion soared, what a fair show they made in…
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