Hebrews 3:17

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

18And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

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

Deuteronomy 2:15For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp.

1 Corinthians 10:1For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through 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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