Hebrews 3:8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation; in the day of temptation in the desert,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
In Context
7Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To day if you shall hear his voice,
9Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,
Cross References
Exodus 8:15And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.
Numbers 14:11And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?
Deuteronomy 6:16Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.
1 Samuel 6:6Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their hearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let them go, and they departed?
2 Chronicles 30:8Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: serve the Lord the God of your fathers, and the wrath of his indignation shall be turned away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments.
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 →