Hebrews 3:18
And 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?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
In Context
19So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.
Cross References
Numbers 14:11And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?
Numbers 14:30Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 1:26But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:
Deuteronomy 9:23And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.
Hebrews 3:11And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
Hebrews 4:6So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,
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 →