Deuteronomy 9:13 “The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indee…”

Deuteronomy 9:13

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

World English Bible

Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

American Standard Version

Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Geneva Bible 1599

Furthermore, the Lord spake vnto me, saying, I haue seene this people, and beholde, it is a stifnecked people.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

Young's Literal Translation

'And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it [is];

Bible in Basic English

And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

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Cross references

“I have”

Genesis 11:5 Genesis 18:21 Psalm 50:7 Jeremiah 7:11 Jeremiah 13:27 Hosea 6:10

Genesis 11:5 · BSB

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

Genesis 18:21 · BSB

I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

Psalm 50:7 · BSB

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.

Jeremiah 7:11 · BSB

Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 13:27 · BSB

Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields— I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

Hosea 6:10 · BSB

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

“stiffnecked”

Deuteronomy 9:6 Deuteronomy 10:16 2 Kings 17:14 Deuteronomy 31:27

Deuteronomy 9:6 · BSB

Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 10:16 · BSB

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

2 Kings 17:14 · BSB

But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

Deuteronomy 31:27 · BSB

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”

14Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

Read Deuteronomy 9