Hebrews 4:8
Now if Joshua had given ‘rest’ to the people, God would not have spoken of another and later day.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
In Context
9There is, then, a Sabbath rest still awaiting God’s people.
Cross References
Joshua 22:4Now that the Lord your God has granted rest to your fellow Israelites, as he promised, you may go home to your tents in the land of your holdings, assigned to you by Moses the servant of the Lord on the east of the Jordan.
Psalms 105:44And he gave them the lands of the nations, the fruit of their toil for possession,
Hebrews 11:13All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only foreigners and strangers on the earth.
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 →