Exodus 4:21
4:21 The
Lord said
to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt,
see that you
do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control.
But I will harden
his heart
and
he will not let the people go.
Exodus 11:10
11:10 So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.
Numbers 21:23
21:23 But Sihon did not permit Israel to pass through his border; he
gathered all his forces
together and went out against Israel into the wilderness. When
he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
Joshua 11:19-20
11:19 No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon);
they had to conquer all of them,
11:20 for the
Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.
Jude 1:20
1:20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,
Romans 9:17-23
9:17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh:
“
For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”
9:18 So then,
God
has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.
9:19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”
9:20 But who indeed are you – a mere human being – to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
9:21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?
9:22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
9:23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory –