2 Kings 17:14

Notwithstanding... hear. — Rather, and they hearkened not.

Necks. — Heb., neck. (Comp. Deuteronomy 10:16; Jeremiah 17:23; 2 Chronicles 36:13.)

Like to the neck. — LXX. and Syriac, more than the neck. One letter different in the Hebrew.

Did not believe in the Lord their God. — The reference is not to intellectual but to moral unbelief, evincing itself as disobedience. Vulg., “qui volerunt obediren.” They did not render the obedience of faith. (Comp. the use of ἀπειθεῖ ν in the Greek Testament.)