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Jeremiah 7:26

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Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

Yet they hearkened {H8085} not unto me, nor inclined {H5186} their ear {H241}, but hardened {H7185} their neck {H6203}: they did worse {H7489} than their fathers {H1}.

they would not listen or pay attention to me, but stiffened their necks; they did worse than their ancestors.

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 16:12 (5 votes)

    And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

  • 2 Chronicles 30:8 (4 votes)

    Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

  • Jeremiah 19:15 (3 votes)

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

  • Matthew 23:32 (3 votes)

    Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

  • Jeremiah 7:24 (3 votes)

    But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • Jeremiah 17:23 (3 votes)

    But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

  • Jeremiah 26:5 (2 votes)

    To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending [them], but ye have not hearkened;