Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was he provoked forty years? was it not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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 were those, having heard, who were hardened? yea, were they not all those having come out of Egypt under Moses?

18And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:1For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, 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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