Study it in the app“But they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they went backward and not forward.”
God's first request was, “Listen to my voice,” and they did notObedience
But they did notוְלֹאlistenשָׁמְעוּorוְלֹאinclineהִטּוּtheir ear,אֶת אָזְנָםbut walkedוַיֵּלְכוּinבְּthe counsels,מֹעֵצוֹתin the stubbornnessבִּשְׁרִרוּתof their evilהָרָעheart,לִבָּםand they wentוַיִּהְיוּbackwardלְאָחוֹרand notוְלֹאforward.לְפָנִים
listen
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “shamu” appearsincline
To turn the ear or the heart toward someone or something.
Where else “hitu” appearshearing
The ear that listens: "incline your ear".
Where else “azna” appearswalk
To conduct oneself day by day in a certain way, as one walks along a road.
Where else “yelchu” appearsplan, counsel
Plan, counsel: what someone intends to do after thinking it over.
Where else “moetsot” appearsstubbornness
Stubbornness: the hardness of one who follows only his own opinion.
Where else “sherirut” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “ra” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “liba” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yihyu” appearsbehind
The part behind something or someone, the side not seen from the front.
Where else “achor” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fanim” appears23But this word I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your Elohim, and you will be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, so that it may go well with you.’
24 · This verse (above)
25From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I sent to you all my servants the prophets, every day rising early and sending.
