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Torrey's Topical Textbook
2 Chronicles 30:8 Now be you not stiff necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. Torrey's Topical Textbook
Psalm 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. Torrey's Topical Textbook
Psalm 95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: Torrey's Topical Textbook