Hebrews 3:9

where your fathers tried me, tested me, and saw my works for forty years.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

In Context

8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

10Therefore I was angry with that generation and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’

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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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