Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

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In The King James Version

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

In Context

16Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

18And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

Numbers 14:32But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.

Deuteronomy 2:15For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

1 Corinthians 10:1For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea;

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 →

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