II-Chronicles

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.