Hebrews 3:16

Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

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In The King James Version

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

In Context

15To use the words of scripture – ‘If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.’

17And with whom was it that God was sorely vexed for forty years? Was not it with those who had sinned, and who fell dead in the desert?

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Cross References

Joshua 14:7I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the country, and I reported to him as best I could.

Romans 11:4But what was the divine response? ‘I have kept for myself seven thousand who have never bowed the knee to Baal.’

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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