Hebrews 3:10
Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,
11As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.
Cross References
Genesis 6:6It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,
Psalms 67:2May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us.
Psalms 78:40How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?
Isaiah 63:10But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Hosea 4:12My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God.
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 →