Hebrews 3:9
This was when your ancestors rebelled by testing me, 1 and when, during forty years, they saw my deeds. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 1 as in the rebellion, 1 in the time of testing in the wilderness. 1
Cross References
Exodus 19:4You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
Numbers 14:33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years. They must bear the consequences of your acts of rebellion until the end of your corpses in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 4:9Only pay attention and carefully guard yourself, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not leave your heart for all the days of your life. Instead, make them known to your children and your children's children.
Deuteronomy 8:4Your clothing did not wear out and fall off you, and your feet did not swell up during those forty years.
Deuteronomy 29:2Moses called to all Israel and said to them, “You have seen everything that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land—
Joshua 23:3You have seen everything that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.
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 →