From Nave’s Topical Bible
Self-will
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 41Passages listed
- 18Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (Stubbornness)
- Forbidden2 Chronicles 30:8Psalms 75:5
- Proceeds from
- Unbelief2 Kings 17:14
- PrideNehemiah 9:16Nehemiah 9:29
- An evil heartJeremiah 7:24
- God knowsIsaiah 48:4
- Exhibited in
- Refusing to listen to GodProverbs 1:24
- Refusing to listen to the messengers of God1 Samuel 8:19Jeremiah 44:16Zechariah 7:11
- Refusing to walk in the ways of GodNehemiah 9:17Isaiah 42:24Psalms 78:10
- Refusing to listen to (obey) parentsDeuteronomy 21:18Deuteronomy 21:19
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- Refusing to receive correctionDeuteronomy 21:18Jeremiah 5:3Jeremiah 7:28
- Rebelling against GodDeuteronomy 31:27Psalms 78:8
- Resisting the Holy SpiritActs 7:51
- Walking in the counsels of an evil heart with 23:17Jeremiah 7:24
- Hardening the neck (metaphorically)Nehemiah 9:16
- Hardening the heart2 Chronicles 36:13
- Going backward and not forwardJeremiah 7:24
- Heinousness of1 Samuel 15:23
- Servants should
- Be withoutTitus 1:7
- Warn the people againstHebrews 3:7–12
- Pray that the people may be forgiven forExodus 34:9Deuteronomy 9:27
- Characteristic of wicked peopleProverbs 7:112 Peter 2:10
- The wicked do not cease fromJudges 2:19
- Punishment forDeuteronomy 21:21Proverbs 29:1
- IllustratedPsalms 32:9Jeremiah 31:18
- EXEMPLIFIED
- Simeon and LeviGenesis 49:6
- The IsraelitesExodus 32:9Deuteronomy 9:6Deuteronomy 9:13
- King Saul1 Samuel 15:19–23
- David2 Samuel 24:4
- Josiah2 Chronicles 35:22
- Zedekiah2 Chronicles 36:13
- See Obduracy
The passages, in Bible order (41)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 49:6
May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
Commentary on Genesis 49:61 voice
Likewise, when he said to Simeon and Levi, "I will divide you in Jacob and scatter you in Israel," he revealed that they were to be redeemed in the gathering together of the nations. For when the shepherd has been struck down, the flock that was previously brought together is scattered; thus one who did not belong could enter in and all Israel could be saved.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Blessings of the Patriarchs, 397Patristic
- Exodus 32:9
The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
Commentary on Exodus 32:91 voice
So these sinners undergo a contrary experience: their necks which they fatally raised against the Lord are subjected to his sweet yoke with the humility which brings salvation. We recall that this often befell persecutors, so that having earlier maintained their idols by the most …
Cassiodorus· EXPOSITION OF THE PSALMS 128:4, 585Patristic
- Exodus 34:9
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
Commentary on Exodus 34:91 voice
And he said, if now I have found grace in thy sight,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 9:6
Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:61 voice
Understand therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness,.... This is again repeated to impress it upon their minds, that it was not for any goodness of theirs, but as a gift of divine goodness to them, that they were put into the possession of the good land, which greatly exceeded any merits of theirs, and was entirely owing to the kindness of God to them, and not to any righteousness of theirs; and this he frequently inculcates, that they might have a thorough understanding of it.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 9:13
The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:131 voice
Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying,.... After he had given him the two tables, and before his departure from the mount: I have seen this people; took notice of them, their ways, and their works: and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people; unwilling to submit to, and bear the yoke of my commandments; see Exo 32:9.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 9:27
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:272 voices
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - As if he had said: These are their descendants, and the covenant was made with those patriarchs in behalf of these. God bestows many blessings on comparatively worthless persons, either for the sake of their pious ancestors, or on account of the religious people with whom they are connected; therefore union with the Church of God is a blessing of no common magnitude. The reader will find the grand subject of this chapter explained at large in the notes on Exodus 31 and 32, to which he is particularly desired to refer.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 21:181 voice
Because the written law was a law of rigor, it not only approves this threefold obedience, but also punishes transgressors of this obedience. For it punishes the rebellious son, Deuteronomy 21: If a man beget a rebellious and insolent son, who does not heed his …
Bonaventure· Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection, Question 4, 1257Patristic
- Deuteronomy 21:19
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 21:191 voice
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 21:21
Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 21:211 voice
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 31:27
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
Commentary on Deuteronomy 31:272 voices
While I am yet alive - ye have been rebellious - Such was the disposition of this people to act contrary to moral goodness that Moses felt himself justified in inferring what would take place from what had already happened. 1. Never was a people more fully and faithfully warned, and from this very circumstance we may see that they were under no fatal constraining necessity to commit sin against God; they might have avoided it, but they would not.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 2:19
But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
Commentary on Judges 2:191 voice
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Samuel 8:19
Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 8:191 voice
10. It was indeed a matter of great rashness to ask for a king against God's will; of great hardness, to be unable to be overcome by the counsels of the prophet. It was of great rashness to put forth arguments to him whom they knew, by the Lord's revelation, to know beforehand all that he was about to do. Of great hardness, not to yield to him whom they knew to command only those things which he had learned by the Lord's revelation.
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 1, 604Patristic
- 1 Samuel 15:19–23
So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”
Commentary on 1 Samuel 15:19–231 voice
And when Saul was charged with negligence and a breach of the law, he did not benefit his cause by alleging his conduct on other matters. For a defence on one count will not operate to obtain an acquittal on another count; but if all things should be done according to law and justice, a man must defend himself in those particulars wherein he is accused, and must either disprove the past, or else confess it with the promise that he will desist, and do so no more.
Athanasius of Alexandria· LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF EGYPT 1.11, 373Patristic
- 1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
Commentary on 1 Samuel 15:231 voice
24. What is it that those who resist and refuse to comply are likened by the prophet to diviners and idolaters, except that diviners strove to know divine things and to divine hidden matters, while idolaters subjected themselves to figments by venerating them? But those who resist the commands of their superiors resist precisely because they judge that they know the divine will better.
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 6, Chapter 2, 604Patristic
- 2 Samuel 24:4
Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army departed from the presence of the king to count the troops of Israel.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 24:41 voice
Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Kings 17:14
But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
Commentary on 2 Kings 17:141 voice
Notwithstanding, they would not hear,.... Their instructions, advice, and admonitions, and obey them: but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God: as Terah and Nahor, who were idolaters; or rather, their fathers in the wilderness, that made and served the calf, and those that rebelled against Moses and Aaron; it is a metaphor taken from oxen, that will not submit their necks to the yoke, but draw back from it, or cast it off, see Act 7:51.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
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