Hebrews 3:18
But to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, except to those who were incredulous?
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
19And so, we perceive that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
Cross References
Numbers 14:11And the Lord said to Moses: “How long will this people disparage me? How long will they refuse to believe me, despite all the signs that I have wrought before them?
Numbers 14:30you shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to cause you to live there, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 1:26Yet you were not willing to go there. Instead, being incredulous to the word of the Lord our God,
Deuteronomy 9:23And when he sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Ascend and possess the land, which I have given to you,’ even so, you spurned the command of the Lord your God, and you did not believe him, nor were you willing to listen to his voice.
Hebrews 3:11So it is as I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!”
Hebrews 4:6Therefore, this is because certain ones remain who are to enter into it, and those to whom it was announced first did not enter into it, because of unbelief.
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 →