Hebrews 3:9
Your fathers put me through it, trying my patience, and they saw the evidence I gave them for forty years.
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In The King James Version
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:4‘You saw for yourselves what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles' wings, how I brought you to myself.
Numbers 14:33Your children will wander in the desert for forty years, suffering because of your lack of trust until all your bodies lie buried in the desert.
Deuteronomy 4:9Just make sure to be very careful, and really watch what you do, so you don't forget the things you've seen. Keep them in mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
Deuteronomy 8:4During these forty years your clothing didn't wear out and your feet didn't swell up.
Deuteronomy 29:2Moses called all the Israelites together and announced to them, You saw with your own eyes everything the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to his whole country.
Joshua 23:3You've seen everything the Lord your God has done to all the nations on your behalf—the Lord your God has been fighting for you.
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 →