Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was He[F] angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

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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

16So who were they who, upon hearing, rebelled? Really now, was it not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

18Or to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, if not to those who disobeyed?

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:1Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, 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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