Self-Will and Stubbornness

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Genesis 49:6Torrey Exemplified — Simeon and Levi

  O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

• Exodus 32:9Torrey Exemplified — Israelites

  And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

• Exodus 34:9Torrey MINISTERS SHOULD — Pray that their people may be forgiven for

  And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

• Deuteronomy 9:6Torrey Exemplified — Israelites

  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.

• Deuteronomy 9:13Torrey Exemplified — Israelites

  Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

• Deuteronomy 9:27Torrey MINISTERS SHOULD — Pray that their people may be forgiven for

  Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

• Deuteronomy 21:18Torrey EXHIBITED IN — Refusing to hearken to parents

  ¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

• Deuteronomy 21:19Torrey EXHIBITED IN — Refusing to hearken to parents

  Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

• Deuteronomy 21:21Torrey Punishment for

  And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

• Deuteronomy 31:27Torrey EXHIBITED IN — Rebelling against God

  For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

• Judges 2:19Torrey The wicked cease not from

  And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

• 1 Samuel 8:19Torrey EXHIBITED IN — Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God

  ¶ Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;