Hebrews 3:17

Who was God upset with for forty years? Wasn't it those who sinned, those who were buried 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

16Who was it that rebelled against God, even though they heard what he said? Wasn't it all those who were led out of Egypt by Moses?

18Who was God speaking of when he vowed they should not enter into his rest? Wasn't it those who disobeyed him?

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22not a single one of the those who saw my glory and the miracles I did in Egypt and in the desert—but provoked me and refused to obey me time and time again —

Numbers 14:32But you—you are all going to die in this desert.

Deuteronomy 2:15In fact the Lord worked against them to remove them from the camp, until they were all dead.

1 Corinthians 10:1Now I want to explain this to you, brothers and sisters. Our forefathers lived under the cloud, and they 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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