King James Version
Deuteronomy 9:13 in the King James Version says “Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:”
Deuteronomy 9:13 · KJV
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Furthermore the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“I have seen”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“and behold it is a stiffnecked”
H6203the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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