Hebrews 3:17

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

In Context

16for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

18and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? —

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice —

Numbers 14:32as to you — your carcases do fall in this wilderness,

Deuteronomy 2:15and also the hand of Jehovah hath been against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, till they are consumed.

1 Corinthians 10:1And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

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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