2 Kings 17:14 meaning and explanation
But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
2 Kings 17:14, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator pauses in his long account of Israel's fall to name the root of it. The people had heard the LORD's warnings through the prophets, yet they refused to listen, and the image of a stiffened neck is that of an animal that braces against the yoke and will not be turned.
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