Hebrews 3:18
And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Updated King James Version
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
19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Cross References
Numbers 14:11And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?
Numbers 14:30Doubtless all of you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 1:26Notwithstanding all of you would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
Deuteronomy 9:23Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then all of you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and all of you believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
Hebrews 3:11So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Hebrews 4:6Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
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 →