Hebrews 3:18

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

In Context

17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

Numbers 14:30Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:26But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 9:23And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

Hebrews 3:11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

Hebrews 4:6Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,

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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