Hebrews 3:17

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose 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

16For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

18To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

Numbers 14:32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:15Moreover the LORD’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.

1 Corinthians 10:1Now I would not have you ignorant, 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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