Hebrews 3:11
Therefore I sware in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 14:25Nowe the Amalekites and the Canaanites remaine in the valley: wherefore turne backe to morowe, and get you into the wildernesse, by the way of the red Sea.
Numbers 14:35I the Lord haue said, Certainely I will doe so to all this wicked company, that are gathered together against me: for in this wildernesse they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Deuteronomy 1:34Then the Lord heard the voyce of your wordes, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Psalms 95:11Wherefore I sware in my wrath, saying, Surely they shall not enter into my rest.
Hebrews 4:3For we which haue beleeued, doe enter into rest, as he said to the other, As I haue sworne in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest: although the workes were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 4:9There remaineth therefore a rest to 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 →