Hebrews 3:8
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of the trial in the wilderness,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
In Context
7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if ye hear his voice,
9where your fathers challenged me, tested me, and saw my works forty years.
Cross References
Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart, and did not hearken to them, as LORD had spoken.
Numbers 14:11And LORD said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?
Deuteronomy 6:16Ye shall not challenge LORD your God, as ye challenged him in Massah.
1 Samuel 6:6Why then do ye harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
2 Chronicles 30:8Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers dealt proudly and stiffened their neck, and did not hearken to thy commandments,
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 →