Hebrews 3:8
do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
In Context
7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
Cross References
Exodus 8:15When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
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?
Deuteronomy 6:16Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
1 Samuel 6:6Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?
2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your 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 →