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In Midian the LORD
said to Moses, "Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought
your life are dead." So Moses took his wife and his sons, and
started back to the land of Egypt, with them riding the ass. The
staff of God he carried with him. The LORD said to him, "On
your return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the
wonders I have put in your power. I will make him obstinate,
however, so that he will not let the people go. So you shall say
to Pharaoh: Thus says the LORD: Israel is my son, my first-born.
Hence I tell you: Let my son go, that he may serve me. If you
refuse to let him go, I warn you, I will kill your son, your
first-born." [EX 4:19-23]
The LORD answered him, "See! I have made you as God to
Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall act as your prophet. You
shall tell him all that I command you. In turn, your brother Aaron
shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave his land. Yet I
will make Pharaoh so obstinate that, despite the many signs and
wonders that I will work in the land of Egypt, he will not listen
to you. Therefore I will lay my hand on Egypt and by great acts of
judgment I will bring the hosts of my people, the Israelites, out
of the land of Egypt, so that the Egyptians may learn that I am
the LORD, as I stretch out my hand against Egypt and lead the
Israelites out of their midst." Moses and Aaron did as the
LORD had commanded them. [EX 7:1-6]
Pharaoh, however, was obstinate and would not listen to them,
just as the LORD had foretold. [EX 7:13]
Thereupon the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron to stretch
out his staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may be
turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt." They did so.
Aaron stretched out his hand, and with his staff he struck the
dust of the earth, and gnats came upon man and beast. The dust of
the earth was turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
Though the magicians tried to bring forth gnats by their magic
arts, they could not do so. As the gnats infested man and beast,
the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of
God." Yet Pharaoh remained obstinate and would not listen to
them, just as the LORD had foretold. [EX 8:12-15]
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I
have sinned again! The LORD is just; it is I and my subjects who
are at fault. Pray to the LORD, for we have had enough of God's
thunder and hail. Then I will let you go; you need stay no
longer." Moses replied, "As soon as I leave the city I
will extend my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease, and
there will be no more hail. Thus you shall learn that the earth is
the LORD'S. But you and your servants, I know, do not yet fear the
LORD God." Now the flax and the barley were ruined, because
the barley was in ear and the flax in bud. But the wheat and the
spelt were not ruined, for they grow later. When Moses had left
Pharaoh's presence and had gone out of the city, he extended his
hands to the LORD. Then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the
rain no longer poured down upon the earth. But Pharaoh, seeing
that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, sinned again: he
with his servants became obdurate, and in his obstinacy he would
not let the Israelites go, as the LORD had foretold through Moses. [EX
9:27-35]
But the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate, and he would not let them
go. [EX 10:27]
The LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh refuses to listen to you
that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
Thus, although Moses and Aaron performed these various wonders in
Pharaoh's presence, the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate, and he would
not let the Israelites leave his land. [EX 11:9-10]
When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed
every first-born in the land of Egypt, every first-born of man and
of beast. [Taken from EX 13:15]
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites to turn
about and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You
shall camp in front of Baal-zephon, just opposite, by the sea.
Pharaoh will then say, 'The Israelites are wandering about
aimlessly in the land. The desert has closed in on them.' Thus
will I make Pharaoh so obstinate that he will pursue them. Then I
will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, and the
Egyptians will know that I am the LORD." This the Israelites
did. When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had
fled, Pharaoh and his servants changed their minds about them.
"What have we done!" they exclaimed. "Why, we have
released Israel from our service!" So Pharaoh made his
chariots ready and mustered his soldiers - six hundred first-class
chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt, with warriors on
them all. So obstinate had the LORD made Pharaoh that he pursued
the Israelites even while they were marching away in triumph. The
Egyptians, then, pursued them; Pharaoh's whole army, his horses,
chariots and charioteers, caught up with them as they lay encamped
by the sea, at Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon. [EX 14:1-9]
But Sihon, king of Heshbon, refused to let us pass through his
land, because the LORD, your God, made him stubborn in mind and
obstinate in heart that he might deliver him up to you, as indeed
he has now done. [DEUT 2:30]
This was my prayer to him: O Lord GOD, destroy not your people,
the heritage which your majesty has ransomed and brought out of
Egypt with your strong hand. Remember your servants, Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. Look not upon the stubbornness of this people nor
upon their wickedness and sin, lest the people from whose land you
have brought us say, 'The LORD was not able to bring them into the
land he promised them'; or 'Out of hatred for them, he brought
them out to slay them in the desert.' They are, after all, your
people and your heritage, whom you have brought out by your great
power and with your outstretched arm. [DEUT 9:26-29]
"If a man has a stubborn and unruly son who will not
listen to his father or mother, and will not obey them even though
they chastise him, his father and mother shall have him
apprehended and brought out to the elders at the gate of his home
city, where they shall say to those city elders, 'This son of ours
is a stubborn and unruly fellow who will not listen to us; he is a
glutton and a drunkard.'" [Taken from DEUT 21:18-20]
Let there be, then, no man or woman, no clan or tribe among
you, who would now turn away their hearts from the LORD, our God,
to go and serve these pagan gods! Let there be no root that would
bear such poison and wormwood among you. If any such person, upon
hearing the words of this curse, should beguile himself into
thinking that he can safely persist in his stubbornness of heart,
as though to sweep away both the watered soil and the parched
ground, the LORD will never consent to pardon him. Instead, the
LORD'S wrath and jealousy will flare up against that man, and
every curse mentioned in this book will alight on him. The LORD
will blot out his name from under the heavens and will single him
out from all the tribes of Israel for doom, in keeping with all
the curses of the covenant inscribed in this book of the law. [DEUT
29:17-20]
Even when the LORD raised up judges to deliver them from the
power of their despoilers, they did not listen to their judges,
but abandoned themselves to the worship of other gods. They were
quick to stray from the way their fathers had taken, and did not
follow their example of obedience to the commandments of the LORD.
Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, he would be with the
judge and save them from the power of their enemies as long as the
judge lived; it was thus the LORD took pity on their distressful
cries of affliction under their oppressors. But when the judge
died, they would relapse and do worse than their fathers,
following other gods in service and worship, relinquishing none of
their evil practices or stubborn conduct. In his anger toward
Israel the LORD said, "Inasmuch as this nation has violated
my covenant which I enjoined on their fathers, and has disobeyed
me, I for my part will not clear away for them any more of the
nations which Joshua left when he died." [JUDG 2:16-21]
Why should you become stubborn, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh
were stubborn? Was it not after he had dealt ruthlessly with them
that the Israelites were released and departed? [1SAM 6:6]
Accordingly the couriers, with the letters written by the king
and his princes, traversed all Israel and Judah, and at the king's
command they said: "Israelites, return to the LORD, the God
of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you, the
remnant left from the hands of the Assyrian kings. Be not like
your fathers and your brethren who proved faithless to the LORD,
the God of their fathers, so that he delivered them over to
desolation, as you yourselves now see. Be not obstinate, as your
fathers were; extend your hands to the LORD and come to his
sanctuary that he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD,
your God, that he may turn away his burning anger from you. For
when you return to the LORD, your brethren and your children will
find mercy with their captors and return to this land; for
merciful and compassionate is the LORD, your God, and he will not
turn away his face from you if you return to him." [2CHRON
30:6-9]
"As soon as they had relief, they would go back to doing
evil in your sight. Then again you abandoned them to the power of
their enemies, who crushed them. Then they cried out to you, and
you heard them from heaven and delivered them according to your
mercy, many times over. You bore witness against them, in order to
bring them back to your law. But they were insolent and would not
obey your commandments; they sinned against your ordinances, from
which men draw life when they practice them. They turned stubborn
backs, stiffened their necks, and would not obey. You were patient
with them for many years, bearing witness against them through
your spirit, by means of your prophets; still they would not
listen. Thus you delivered them over into the power of the peoples
of the lands. Yet in your great mercy you did not completely
destroy them and you did not forsake them, for you are a kind and
merciful God." [Taken from NEH 9:28-31]
Behold, God rejects the obstinate in heart; he preserves not
the life of the wicked. [JOB 36:5]
If a man pampers his servant from childhood, he will turn out
to be stubborn. [PROV 29:21]
A stubborn man will fare badly in the end, and he who loves
danger will perish in it. A stubborn man will be burdened with sorrow; a sinner will heap
sin upon sin. [SIRACH 3:25-26]
Why are dust and ashes proud? even during life man's body
decays; A slight illness - the doctor jests, a king today -
tomorrow he is dead. When a man dies, he inherits corruption;
worms and gnats and maggots. The beginning of pride is man's
stubbornness in withdrawing his heart from his Maker; For pride is
the reservoir of sin, a source which runs over with vice; Because
of it God sends unheard-of afflictions and brings men to utter
ruin. The thrones of the arrogant God overturns and establishes
the lowly in their stead. The roots of the proud God plucks up, to
plant the humble in their place: He breaks down their stem to the
level of the ground, then digs their roots from the earth. The
traces of the proud God sweeps away and effaces the memory of them
from the earth. Insolence is not allotted to a man, nor stubborn
anger to one born of woman. [SIRACH 10:9-18]
He who spoils his son will have wounds to bandage, and will
quake inwardly at every outcry. A colt untamed turns out stubborn;
a son left to himself grows up unruly. Pamper your child and he
will be a terror for you, indulge him and he will bring you grief.
Share not in his frivolity lest you share in his sorrow, when
finally your teeth are clenched in remorse. Give him not his own
way in his youth, and close not your eyes to his follies. Bend him
to the yoke when he is young, thrash his sides while he is still
small, Lest he become stubborn, disobey you, and leave you
disconsolate. Discipline your son, make heavy his yoke, lest his
folly humiliate you. [SIRACH 30:7-13]
Things of the past I foretold long ago, they went forth from my
mouth, I let you hear of them; then suddenly I took action and
they came to be. Because I know that you are stubborn and that
your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead bronze, I foretold
them to you of old; before they took place I let you hear of them,
That you might not say, "My idol did them, my statue, my
molten image commanded them." [ISA 48:3-5]
Pay attention to this, foolish and senseless people Who have
eyes and see not, who have ears and hear not. Should you not fear
me, says the LORD, should you not tremble before me? I made the
sandy shore the sea's limit, which by eternal decree it may not
overstep. Toss though it may, it is to no avail; though its
billows roar, they cannot pass. But this people's heart is
stubborn and rebellious; they turn and go away, And say not in
their hearts, "Let us fear the LORD, our God, Who gives us
rain early and late, in its time; Who watches for us over the
appointed weeks of harvest." [JER 5:21-24]
Tell them: Thus says the LORD: When someone falls, does he not
rise again? if he goes astray, does he not turn back? Why do these
people rebel with obstinate resistance? Why do they cling to
deceptive idols, refuse to turn back? I listen closely: they speak
what is not true; No one repents of his wickedness, saying,
"What have I done!" Everyone keeps on running his
course, like a steed dashing into battle. Even the stork in the
air knows it seasons; Turtledove, swallow and thrush observe their
time of return, But my people do not know the ordinance of the
LORD. How can you say, "We are wise, we have the law of the
LORD"? Why, that has been changed into falsehood by the lying
pen of the scribes! The wise are confounded, dismayed and
ensnared; Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, of what
avail is their wisdom? [JER 8:4-9]
Then the message came to me from the LORD: Thus says the LORD:
So also I will allow the pride of Judah to rot, the great pride of
Jerusalem. This wicked people who refuse to obey my words, who
walk in the stubbornness of their hearts, and follow strange gods
to serve and adore them, shall be like this loincloth which is
good for nothing. For, as close as the loincloth clings to a man's
loins, so had I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house
of Judah cling to me, says the LORD; to be my people, my renown,
my praise, my beauty. But they did not listen. [JER 13:8-11]
This word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: Rise up, be off to
the potter's house; there I will give you my message. I went down
to the potter's house and there he was, working at the wheel.
Whenever the object of clay which he was making turned out badly
in his hand, he tried again, making of the clay another object of
whatever sort he pleased. Then the word of the Lord came to me:
Can I not do to you, house of Israel, as this potter has done?
says the LORD. Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are
you in my hand, house of Israel. Sometimes I threaten to uproot
and tear down and destroy a nation or a kingdom. But if that
nation which I have threatened turns from its evil, I also repent
of the evil which I threatened to do. Sometimes, again, I promise
to build up and plant a nation or a kingdom. But if that nation
does what is evil in my eyes, refusing to obey my voice, I repent
of the good with which I promised to bless it. And now, tell this
to the men of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem: Thus says the
LORD: Take care! I am fashioning evil against you and making a
plan. Return, each of you, from his evil way; reform your ways and
your deeds. But they will say, "No use! We will follow our
own devices; each one of us will behave according to the
stubbornness of his evil heart!" [JER 18:1-12]
This was your warning through your servant Moses, the day you
ordered him to write down your law in the presence of the
Israelites: If you do not heed my voice, surely this great and
numerous throng will dwindle away among the nations to which I
will scatter them. For I know they will not heed me, because they
are a stiff-necked people. But in the land of their captivity they
shall have a change of heart; they shall know that I, the LORD, am
their God. I will give them hearts, and heedful ears; and they
shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and shall invoke
my name. Then they shall turn back from their stiff-necked
stubbornness, and from their evil deeds, because they shall
remember the fate of their fathers who sinned against the LORD.
And I will bring them back to the land which with my oath I
promised to their fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and they
shall rule it. I will make them increase; they shall not then
diminish. And I will establish for them, as an eternal covenant,
that I will be their God, and they shall be my people; and I will
not again remove my people Israel from the land I gave them. [BARUCH
2:28-35]
Son of man, stand up! I wish to speak with you. As he spoke to
me, spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard the
one who was speaking say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to
the Israelites, rebels who have rebelled against me; they and
their fathers have revolted against me to this very day. Hard of
face and obstinate of heart are they to whom I am sending you. But
you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord GOD! And whether they
heed or resist - for they are a rebellious house - they shall know
that a prophet has been among them. But as for you, son of man,
fear neither them nor their words when they contradict you and
reject you, and when you sit on scorpions. Neither fear their
words nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious
house. (But speak my words to them, whether they heed or resist,
for they are rebellious.) As for you, son of man, obey me when I
speak to you: be not rebellious like this house of rebellion, but
open your mouth and eat what I shall give you. It was then I saw a
hand stretched out to me, in which was a written scroll which he
unrolled before me. It was covered with writing front and back,
and written on it was: Lamentation and wailing and woe!
[EZEK 2:1-10]
He said to me: Son of man, eat what is before you; eat this
scroll, then go, speak to the house of Israel. So I opened my
mouth and he gave me the scroll to eat. Son of man, he then said
to me, feed your belly and fill your stomach with this scroll I am
giving you. I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. He
said: Son of man, go now to the house of Israel, and speak my
words to them. Not to a people with difficult speech and barbarous
language am I sending you, nor to the many peoples (with difficult
speech and barbarous language) whose words you cannot understand.
If I were to send you to these, they would listen to you; but the
house of Israel will refuse to listen to you, since they will not
listen to me. For the whole house of Israel is stubborn of brow
and obstinate in heart. But I will make your face as hard as
theirs, and your brow as stubborn as theirs, like diamond, harder
than flint. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for
they are a rebellious house. Son of man, he said to me, take into
your heart all my words that I speak to you; hear them well. Now
go to the exiles, to your countrymen, and say to them: Thus says
the Lord GOD! - whether they heed or resist! Then spirit lifted me
up, and I heard behind me the noise of a loud rumbling as the
glory of the LORD rose from its place: the noise made by the wings
of the living creatures striking one another, and by the wheels
alongside them, a loud rumbling. The spirit which had lifted me up
seized me, and I went off spiritually stirred, while the hand of
the LORD rested heavily upon me. Thus I came to the exiles who
lived at Tel-abib by the river Chebar, and for seven days I sat
among them distraught. [EZEK 3:1-15]
For Israel is as stubborn as a heifer; will the LORD now give
them broad pastures as though they were lambs? [HOSEA 4:16]
(This word of the LORD came to Zechariah: Thus says the LORD of
hosts:) Render true judgment, and show kindness and compassion
toward each other. Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the
alien or the poor; do not plot evil against one another in your
hearts. But they refused to listen; they stubbornly turned their
backs and stopped their ears so as not to hear. And they made
their hearts diamond hard so as not to hear the teaching and the
message that the LORD of hosts had sent by his spirit through the
former prophets. Then the LORD of hosts in his great anger said
that, as they had not listened when he called, so he would not
listen when they called, but would scatter them with a whirlwind
among all the nations that they did not know. Thus the land was
left desolate after them with no one traveling to and fro; they
made the pleasant land into a desert. [ZECH 7:8-14]
He entered the synagogue, and for three months debated boldly
with persuasive arguments about the kingdom of God. But when some
in their obstinacy and disbelief disparaged the Way before the
assembly, he withdrew and took his disciples with him and began to
hold daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. This
continued for two years with the result that all the inhabitants
of the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord, Jews and
Greeks alike. So extraordinary were the mighty deeds God
accomplished at the hands of Paul that when face cloths or aprons
that touched his skin were applied to the sick, their diseases
left them and the evil spirits came out of them. [ACTS 19:8-12]
Therefore, you are without excuse, every one of you who passes
judgment. For by the standard by which you judge another you
condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the very same things.
We know that the judgment of God on those who do such things is
true. Do you suppose, then, you who judge those who engage in such
things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment
of God? Or do you hold his priceless kindness, forbearance, and
patience in low esteem, unaware that the kindness of God would
lead you to repentance? By your stubbornness and impenitent heart,
you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and
revelation of the just judgment of God, who will repay everyone
according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory,
honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but
wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey
wickedness. Yes, affliction and distress will come upon every
human being who does evil, Jew first and then Greek. But there
will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, Jew
first and then Greek. There is no partiality with God. [ROM 2:1-11]
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