Hebrews 3:11
And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 14:25Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.
Numbers 14:35I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.
Deuteronomy 1:34And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,
Psalms 95:11And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
Hebrews 4:3For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.
Hebrews 4:9So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.
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 →