Hebrews 3:16
For some of those listening did provoke him. But not all of these had set forth from Egypt through Moses.
Catholic Public Domain 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
Cross References
Numbers 14:2And all the sons of Israel were murmuring against Moses and Aaron, saying:
Numbers 14:24My servant Caleb, who, being full of another spirit, has followed me, I will lead into this land, through which he has wandered, and his offspring shall possess it.
Numbers 14:38But only Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, out of all those who had journeyed to examine the land.
Deuteronomy 1:35‘None of the men of this wicked generation will see the good land, which I have promised by oath to your fathers,
Joshua 14:7I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea, so that I might consider the land. And I reported to him what seemed to me to be true.
Romans 11:4But what is the Divine response to him? “I have retained for myself seven thousand men, who have not bent their knees before 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 →