Hebrews 4:8
For if Joshua had been able to give them rest, God wouldn't have spoken later about another day.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
In Context
9So a Sabbath rest remains for God's people.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:19Once the Lord your God gives you peace after fighting your enemies in the country that he's giving you to take over and own, you are to wipe out even the memory of the Amalekites from the earth. Don't forget!
Joshua 22:4Now that the Lord your God has given peace to your brothers, as he promised, go back home to your land that Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
1 Chronicles 7:27Nun his son and Joshua his son.
Psalms 105:44He gave them the lands of the heathen nations, and they inherited what other people had worked for.
Hebrews 11:13They all died still trusting in God. Though they didn't receive the things God promised, they were still looking for them as it were from a distance and welcomed them, acknowledging that on this earth they were foreigners, people just passing through.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 4:2-11
Gospel Privileges; Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of… Read the whole commentary →