Hebrews 3:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
In Context
8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Cross References
Exodus 19:4Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.
Numbers 14:33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou shouldst forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them to thy sons, and thy sons' sons:
Deuteronomy 8:4Thy raiment hath not become old upon thee, neither hath thy foot swelled these forty years.
Deuteronomy 29:2And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
Joshua 23:3And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done to all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.
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 →