2 Kings 17:14
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.
2 Kings 17:14 in other translations
| BSB | But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God. |
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| WEB | Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck like the neck of their fathers who didn’t believe in the LORD their God. |
| ASV | Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God. |
| YLT | and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God, |
| DARBY | But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God. |
| BBE | And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God. |
| Webster | Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. |
What does 2 Kings 17:14 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 17:7-23
Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the reasons of it given. It was destruction from the Almighty: the Assyrian was but the rod of his anger, Is 10:5. Those that bring sin into a country or family, bring a plague into it, and will have to answer for all the mischief that follows. And vast as the outward wickedness of the…
2 Kings 17:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 17:14
- Deuteronomy 31:27
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?
- Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- Psalms 78:22
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
- Hebrews 3:7-8
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
- Romans 2:4-5
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
- 2 Chronicles 36:13
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
- Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
- Psalms 106:24
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
- Psalms 78:32
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
- Deuteronomy 1:32
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God,
- Proverbs 29:1
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- Exodus 32:9
And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
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Context
- 2 Kings 17:13
Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
- 2 Kings 17:14
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.
- 2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
2 Kings 17:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas ellos no obedecieron, antes endurecieron su cerviz, como la cerviz de sus padres, los cuales no creyeron en Jehová su Dios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et ils n’écoutèrent pas, et roidirent leur cou comme le cou de leurs pères, qui n’avaient pas cru l’ Éternel, leur Dieu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Aber sie hörten nicht und verhärteten ihren Nacken, gleich dem Nacken ihrer Väter, welche Jehova, ihrem Gott, nicht geglaubt hatten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Qui non audierunt, sed induraverunt cervicem suam juxta cervicem patrum suorum, qui noluerunt obedire Domino Deo suo. |