John Gill, on Neh 9:16

“But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments.”

“But they and our fathers dealt proudly,.... Behaved in a haughty manner towards God, their kind benefactor: and hardened their necks; refused to take the yoke of his law, as refractory oxen, that withdraw their necks from the yoke: and hearkened not to thy commandments; to do them, though they promised they would, Exo 24:7.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.