Hebrews 3:11

so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest — !')

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

In Context

10wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

12See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

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Cross References

Numbers 14:25'And the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley; to-morrow turn ye and journey for yourselves into the wilderness — the way of the Red Sea.'

Numbers 14:35I [am] Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; — in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.'

Deuteronomy 1:34'And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and is wroth, and sweareth, saying,

Psalms 95:11Where I sware in Mine anger, 'If they come in unto My rest — !'

Hebrews 4:3for we do enter into the rest — we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest — ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

Hebrews 4:9there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

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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