Hebrews 3:17

With whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

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But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

In Context

16Who was it who heard God and rebelled? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt through Moses?

18To whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if it was not to those who disobeyed him?

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22all those people who saw my glory and the signs of power that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness—they have still tempted me these ten times and have not listened to my voice.

Numbers 14:32As for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:15Moreover, the hand of Yahweh was against that generation in order to destroy them from the people until they were gone.

1 Corinthians 10:1I do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea.

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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