Hebrews 3:18

And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

In Context

17But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

19And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:11And YHWH says to Moses, “Until when does this people despise Me? And until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?

Numbers 14:30you do not come into the land [for] which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to dwell in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:26And you have not been willing to go up, and you provoke the mouth of your God YHWH,

Deuteronomy 9:23also in YHWH’s sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given to you; then you provoke the mouth of your God YHWH, and have not given credence to Him, nor listened to His voice.

Hebrews 3:11so I swore in My anger, They will [not] enter into My rest.”

Hebrews 4:6since then, it remains for some to enter into it, and those who first heard good news did not enter in because of unbelief—

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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