Hebrews 3:16

For some did rebel when they heard God's voice, but not all whom Moses led out of Egypt.

Text-Critical English NT

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

15As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

17Now with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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Cross References

Romans 11:4But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed down 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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