Hebrews 3:18
To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
World English 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 weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.
Cross References
Numbers 14:11The LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
Numbers 14:30surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 1:26Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 9:23When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
Hebrews 3:11As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
Hebrews 4:6Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in 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 →