Hebrews 3:17

But against whom was he incensed forty years? Was it not against those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 some, though they had heard, provoked him; yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

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

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:1BUT I would not that you should 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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