Hebrews 3:8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
In Context
7Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit (o. pneuma) says, To day if all of you will hear his voice,
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Cross References
Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
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?
Deuteronomy 6:16All of you shall not tempt the LORD your God, as all of you tempted him in Massah.
1 Samuel 6:6Wherefore then do all of you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
2 Chronicles 30:8Now be all of you not stubborn, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to your commandments,
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 →