Hebrews 3:9

Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, and saw my mighty deeds 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

8harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me on the day when they tried my patience in the desert,

10Therefore 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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Cross References

Joshua 23:3You have seen all that the Lord your God has done for your sake to all these nations. It is the Lord your God who 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 →

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