Hebrews 3:16

For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

15While it is said, To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation.

17And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

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Cross References

Numbers 14:2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:

Numbers 14:24My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.

Numbers 14:38But Josue .the son of Nun. and Caleb the son of Jephone lived, of all them that had gone to view the land.

Deuteronomy 1:35And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry and swore, and said:

Joshua 14:7I was forty Bears old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me m from Cadesbarne, to view the land, and I brought him word again as to me seemed true.

Romans 11:4dummy verses inserted by amos

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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