Hebrews 3:9
where your fathers challenged me, tested me, and saw my works forty years.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
In Context
8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of the trial in the wilderness,
Cross References
Exodus 19:4Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.
Numbers 14:33And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons--
Deuteronomy 8:4Thy raiment did not grow old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy 29:2And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Ye have seen all that LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
Joshua 23:3and ye have seen all that LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you, for LORD your God, he it is who has fought for you.
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 →