Hebrews 3:18

and of whom swore he, that they should not enter into his rest, but of those who believed not?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

In Context

17And with whom was he disgusted forty years, but with those who sinned, and whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

19So we see that they could not enter, because they believed not.

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Cross References

Hebrews 3:11so that I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

Hebrews 4:6Therefore, because there was a place, whither one and another might enter; and those earlier persons, to whom the announcement was made, entered not, because they believed not:

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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