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Isaiah 48:3–4

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I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
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From verse 3

  1. Isaiah 42:9Rank 1 from verse 3
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    9Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

  2. Isaiah 41:22Rank 2 from verse 3
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    22Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.

  3. Joshua 21:45Rank 3 from verse 3
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    45There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

  4. Isaiah 44:7–8Rank 4 from verse 3
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    7And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.

    8Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

  5. Isaiah 45:21Rank 5 from verse 3
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    21Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

  6. Isaiah 43:9Rank 6 from verse 3
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    9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

  7. Isaiah 46:9–10Rank 7 from verse 3
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    9Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

    10Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

  8. Joshua 23:14–15Rank 8 from verse 3
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    14And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

    15Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

  9. Isaiah 37:7Rank 9 from verse 3
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    7Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

  10. Isaiah 10:33–34Rank 10 from verse 3
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    33Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

    34And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

  11. Isaiah 37:29Rank 11 from verse 3
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    29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

  12. Isaiah 10:12–19Rank 12 from verse 3
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    12Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

    13For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

    14And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

    15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

    16Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

    17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

    18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

    19And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

  13. Isaiah 37:36–38Rank 13 from verse 3
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    36Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

    37¶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

    38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

From verse 4

  1. Acts 7:51Rank 1 from verse 4
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    51¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

  2. Exodus 32:9Rank 2 from verse 4
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    9And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

  3. Zechariah 7:11–12Rank 3 from verse 4
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    11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

    12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

  4. Proverbs 29:1Rank 4 from verse 4
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    1HE, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  5. Ezekiel 3:4–9Rank 5 from verse 4
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    4¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

    5For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

    6Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

    7But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

    8Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

    9As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

  6. Romans 2:5Rank 6 from verse 4
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    5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  7. Jeremiah 19:15Rank 7 from verse 4
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    15Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

  8. Jeremiah 5:3Rank 8 from verse 4
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    3O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  9. Deuteronomy 31:27Rank 9 from verse 4
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    27For 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?

  10. Exodus 33:5Rank 10 from verse 4
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    5For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

  11. Exodus 33:3Rank 11 from verse 4
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    3Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

  12. Psalms 75:5Rank 12 from verse 4
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    5Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

  13. Psalms 78:8Rank 13 from verse 4
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    8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

  14. 2 Chronicles 36:13Rank 14 from verse 4
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    13And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.

  15. Isaiah 46:12Rank 15 from verse 4
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    12¶ Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:

  16. 2 Chronicles 30:8Rank 16 from verse 4
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    8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

  17. 2 Kings 17:14Rank 17 from verse 4
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    14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.

  18. Daniel 5:20Rank 18 from verse 4
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    20But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

  19. Deuteronomy 10:16Rank 19 from verse 4
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    16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

  20. Hebrews 3:13Rank 20 from verse 4
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    13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

  21. Jeremiah 3:3Rank 21 from verse 4
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    3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

  22. Jeremiah 7:26Rank 22 from verse 4
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    26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

  23. Nehemiah 9:16–17Rank 23 from verse 4
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    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

    17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

  24. Nehemiah 9:28Rank 24 from verse 4
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    28But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

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Isaiah 48:3

COMBINED MEANING

declared

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of declare, meaning to make known, tell, announce, proclaim, explain, show, or state plainly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

forth

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1. Outward, away, or forward from a place, person, possession, or former position. 2. In constructions of bearing or producing, into birth, growth, fruit, or another stated result. 3. With verbs such as put, stretch, spread, or reach, outward by extension or exertion. 4. In constructions of showing, speaking, issuing, or displaying, into view, expression, publication, or effect. 5. Onward from a stated time or point, as in from that time forth.

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

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mouth

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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.

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shewed

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Past-tense or past-participial form of show (to reveal, declare, display, or make known).

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pass

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To go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.

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Isaiah 48:4

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knew

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Perceived, understood, recognized, or was acquainted with.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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art

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1. The second-person singular present form of be: are, when one person is addressed. 2. Skill, craft, or skilled workmanship used to make or prepare something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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sinew

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Sense 1: A tendon or strong cord of the body. Sense 2: Figuratively, a source or image of strength and stiffness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

brow

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1. The ridge above the eye. 2. The projecting edge or crest of a hill.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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48:2For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

48:3I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

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48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

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48:5I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

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