Hebrews 3:18
To whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if it was not to those who disobeyed him?
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
In Context
19We see that they were not able to enter his rest because of unbelief.
Cross References
Numbers 14:11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long must this people despise me? How long must they fail to trust me, despite all the signs of my power that I have done among them?
Numbers 14:30You will certainly not go into the land that I promised to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 1:26Yet you refused to attack, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 9:23When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea and said, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe or listen to his voice.
Hebrews 3:11It is just as I swore in my anger: 1 'They will never enter my rest.'”
Hebrews 4:6Therefore, because it is still reserved for some to enter his rest, and since many Israelites who heard the good news did not enter it because of disobedience,
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 →