Hebrews 3:16
for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 14:2and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, 'O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!
Numbers 14:24and My servant Caleb, because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me — I have brought him in unto the land whither he hath entered, and his seed doth possess it.
Numbers 14:38and Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, have lived of those men who go to spy out the land.
Deuteronomy 1:35Not one of these men of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,
Joshua 14:7a son of forty years [am] I in Moses, servant of Jehovah, sending me from Kadesh-Barnea, to spy the land, and I bring him back word as with my heart;
Romans 11:4but what saith the divine answer to him? 'I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'
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 →