Deuteronomy 31:27

31:27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. ¹  Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord; you will be even more rebellious after my death! ² 

Deuteronomy 31:2

31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, ³  and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’

Deuteronomy 17:14

Provision for Kingship

17:14 When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”

Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ⁴  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ⁵  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 30:8

30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving ⁶  you today.

Deuteronomy 1:13

1:13 Select wise and practical ⁷  men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders.”

Psalms 95:8-10

95:8 He says, ⁸  “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, ⁹ 

like they were that day at Massah ¹⁰  in the wilderness, ¹¹ 

95:9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, ¹² 

and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

95:10 For forty years I was continually disgusted ¹³  with that generation,

and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; ¹⁴ 

they do not obey my commands.’ ¹⁵ 

Proverbs 29:1

29:1 The one who stiffens his neck ¹⁶  after numerous rebukes ¹⁷ 

will suddenly be destroyed ¹⁸  without remedy. ¹⁹ 

Isaiah 48:4

48:4 I did this ²⁰  because I know how stubborn you are.

Your neck muscles are like iron

and your forehead like bronze. ²¹ 

Jeremiah 19:15

19:15 “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ²²  says, ‘I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it ²³  all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused ²⁴  to pay any attention to what I have said!’”

Romans 2:5

2:5 But because of your stubbornness ²⁵  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! ²⁶ 

Hebrews 3:13

3:13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

Hebrews 3:15

3:15 As it says, ²⁷  “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! ²⁸  Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” ²⁹ 

[31:27]  ¹ tn Heb “stiffness of neck” (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV). See note on the word “stubborn” in Deut 9:6.

[31:27]  ² tn Heb “How much more after my death?” The Hebrew text has a sarcastic rhetorical question here; the translation seeks to bring out the force of the question.

[31:2]  ³ tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”

[17:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

[30:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”

[1:13]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew verb נְבֹנִים (nÿvonim, from בִּין [bin]) is a Niphal referring to skill or intelligence (see T. Fretheim, NIDOTTE 1:652-53).

[95:8]  ¹¹ tn The words “he says” are supplied in the translation to clarify that the following words are spoken by the Lord (see vv. 9-11).

[95:8]  ¹² sn The name Meribah means “strife.” Two separate but similar incidents at Meribah are recorded in the Pentateuch (Exod 17:1-7; Num 20:1-13, see also Pss 81:7; 106:32). In both cases the Israelites complained about lack of water and the Lord miraculously provided for them.

[95:8]  ¹³ sn The name Massah means “testing.” This was another name (along with Meribah) given to the place where Israel complained following the Red Sea Crossing (see Exod 17:1-7, as well as Deut 6:16; 9:22; 33:8).

[95:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “do not harden your heart[s] as [at] Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness.”

[95:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “where your fathers tested me.”

[95:10]  ¹⁵ tn The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite or an imperfect. If the latter, it emphasizes the ongoing nature of the condition in the past. The translation reflects this interpretation of the verbal form.

[95:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a people, wanderers of heart [are] they.”

[95:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and they do not know my ways.” In this context the Lord’s “ways” are his commands, viewed as a pathway from which his people, likened to wayward sheep (see v. 7), wander.

[29:1]  ¹⁷ tn The idiom “to harden the neck” (מַקְשֶׁה־עֹרֶף, maqsheh-’oref) is the idea of resisting the rebukes and persisting in obstinacy (e.g., Exod 32:9). The opposite of a “stiff neck” would be the bending back, i.e., submission.

[29:1]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew construction is אִישׁ תּוֹכָחוֹת (’ish tokhakhot, “a man of rebukes”), meaning “a man who has (or receives) many rebukes.” This describes a person who is deserving of punishment and who has been given many warnings. The text says, then, “a man of rebukes hardening himself.”

[29:1]  ¹⁹ sn The stubborn person refuses to listen; he will suddenly be destroyed when the calamity strikes (e.g., Prov 6:15; 13:18; 15:10).

[29:1]  ²⁰ tn Or “healing” (NRSV).

[48:4]  ¹⁹ tn The words “I did this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text v. 4 is subordinated to v. 3.

[48:4]  ²⁰ sn The image is that of a person who has tensed the muscles of the face and neck as a sign of resolute refusal.

[19:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.”

[19:15]  ²² tn Heb “all its towns.”

[19:15]  ²³ tn Heb “They hardened [or made stiff] their neck so as not to.”

[2:5]  ²³ tn Grk “hardness.” Concerning this imagery, see Jer 4:4; Ezek 3:7; 1 En. 16:3.

[2:5]  ²⁴ tn Grk “in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”

[3:15]  ²⁵ tn Grk “while it is said.”

[3:15]  ²⁶ tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

[3:15]  ²⁷ sn A quotation from Ps 95:7b-8.