Hebrews 3:16

who then, when they had heard, provoked? Nay, was it not all who came forth out of Egypt by Moses?

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

15When it is said: To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation;

17But with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with those who sinned? whose carcasses fell in the wilderness.

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Cross References

Romans 11:4But what says the answer of God to him? I reserved to myself seven thousand men, who bowed not the knee to Baal.

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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