Hebrews 3:16

For who were they that heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

In Context

15In the words of Scripture, Today, if you hear his voice, Do not continue to harden your hearts as at the Provocation.

17And with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

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Cross References

Romans 11:4But what was the answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

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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