Hebrews 3:17

So against whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who had sinned, whose dead bodies lay prostrate in the desert?

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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

16For some of those listening did provoke him. But not all of these had set forth from Egypt through Moses.

18But to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, except to those who were incredulous?

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22And yet, all the men who have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who have tested me ten times already, and yet have not obeyed my voice,

Numbers 14:32Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:15For his hand was against them, so that they would pass away from the midst of the camp.

1 Corinthians 10:1For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and they all went across 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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