Hebrews 3:16
For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
In Context
15while it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
Cross References
Numbers 14:2And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt, or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 14:24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went, and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers 14:38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
Deuteronomy 1:35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,
Joshua 14:7I was forty years old when Moses the servant of LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
Romans 11:4But what does the divine response say to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed a knee to Baal.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 3:8-19
Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you… Read the whole commentary →