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But they didn`t listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
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A Stiff-Necked Rejection
Commentators emphasize that Israel's disobedience was not an accident or a result of ignorance. Phrases like "inclined not their ear" and "made their neck stiff" depict a deliberate, conscious rebellion. Scholars like Calvin and Gill compare it to an untamable ox refusing the yoke, highlighting an active and stubborn resistance to God's authority and instruction.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This prophecy on the observance of the Sabbath is the first of a series of short predictions, probably arranged in chronological order among themse…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet stresses their crime: that the Jews had not just begun for the first time to violate this precept of the Law, for he reminds them …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But they obeyed not Or, "heard not" F3 ; so as to observe and do; that is, their fathers did not; this co…
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The prophet was to present to the rulers and the people of Judah the command to keep the Sabbath day holy. Let them strictly observe the fourth com…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet calls the people back to practicing their original religion regarding the commandment to observe the Sabbath. This is t…
