Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff necked people. Treasury of Scripture Understand Deuteronomy 9:3,4 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them... Ezekiel 20:44 And you shall know that I am the LORD when I have worked with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways... giveth thee Moses repeats this a third time, that, if it were possible, he might root out of the Israelites the opinion of their own deserts, before God rooted out the Canaanites from their country. a stiff-necked Deuteronomy 9:13 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff necked people: Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff necked. Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day... Exodus 32:9 And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff necked people: Exodus 33:3 To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the middle of you; for you are a stiff necked people... Exodus 34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stiff necked people... 2 Chronicles 30:8 Now be you not stiff necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary... 2 Chronicles 36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck... Psalm 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright... Isaiah 48:3,4 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly... Ezekiel 2:4 For they are impudent children and stiff hearted. I do send you to them; and you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD. Zechariah 7:11,12 But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear... Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you. Romans 5:20,21 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound...
Context Assurance of Victory
1Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 2A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak! 3Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you. 4Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you. 5Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff necked people. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this excellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very stiffnecked people.
Darby Bible Translation
Know therefore that Jehovah thy God doth not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people.
King James Bible
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast known, that not for thy righteousness is Jehovah thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck thou art.
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