Hebrews 3:10
Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, and I said – ‘Their hearts are always straying; they have never learned my ways’;
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9Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, and saw my mighty deeds for forty years.
11While in my wrath I swore – ‘They will never enter upon my rest.’”
Cross References
Genesis 6:6he was greatly grieved and regretted that he had made people on the earth.
Psalms 67:2that the world may know your way, and all nations your power to save.
Psalms 78:40But how often they rebelled in the desert, and caused him grief in the wilderness,
Psalms 147:20No other nation did he do this for, they know nothing of his judgments. Hallelujah.
Hosea 4:12My own people ask counsel of a piece of wood! A stick gives them advice! For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray, they commit adultery against their God.
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 →