Hebrews 3:9

when your fathers tempted me, and proved (and) saw my works forty years.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

In Context

8harden not your hearts unto the angering of him, as (did) the embitterers, and as the day of temptation in the desert,

10On which account I was wearied with that generation; and said, It is a people that doth err (in) their heart, and that hath not known my ways.

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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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