Hebrews 3:8
Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, according to the day of the tentation in the wildernes,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
In Context
7Wherefore, as the holy Ghost sayth, To day if ye shall heare his voyce,
9Where your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and sawe my workes fourtie yeeres long.
Cross References
Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh sawe that hee had rest giuen him, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not vnto them, as the Lord had said.
Numbers 14:11And the Lord said vnto Moses, How long will this people prouoke me, and howe long will it be, yer they beleeue me, for al the signes which I haue shewed among them?
Deuteronomy 6:16Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye did tempt him in Massah:
1 Samuel 6:6Wherefore then should ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let them goe, and they departed?
2 Chronicles 30:8Be not ye now stiffenecked like your fathers, but giue the hand to the Lord, and come into his sanctuarie, which he hath sanctified for euer, and serue the Lord your God, and the fiercenesse of his wrath shall turne away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers behaued them selues proudely, and hardened their neck, so that they hearkened not vnto thy commandements,
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 →