Hebrews 3:17
15 As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
16 For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
19 So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- KJV
- But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
- WEB
- With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- ASV
- And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- DARBY
- And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
- BLB
- And with whom was He angry forty years, [if] not with those having sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- ÅB
- Og hvem var det han harmedes på i førti år? var det ikke på dem som hadde syndet, så deres kropper falt i ørkenen?
- OTB
- Og med hvem var Gud misfornøyd i førti år? Var det ikke med dem som syndet, hvis kropper falt i ørkenen?
- B1930
- Og hvem var det han harmedes på i firti år? var det ikke på dem som hadde syndet, så deres kropper falt i ørkenen?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 14:29
Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
Read in contextNumbers 26:64–65
Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Read in contextNumbers 14:22
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Read in contextNumbers 14:32–33
As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
Read in contextJude 1:5
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:15–16
Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:1–13
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:22
Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
Read in context