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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 7:26 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 7:26 |
King James |
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
hardened . . . neck-- (Deu 31:27; Isa 48:4; Act 7:51).
worse than their fathers-- (Jer 16:12). In Jer 7:22 He had said, "your fathers"; here He says, "their fathers"; the change to the third person marks growing alienation from them. He no longer addresses themselves, as it would be a waste of words in the case of such hardened rebels. |
22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
12 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:
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
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?