Deuteronomy 9:13
“Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:”
And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
Cross-References
“And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:”
“Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.”
“I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.”
“And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”
“Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.”