Hebrews 3:18
16 For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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 to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
- KJV
- And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
- WEB
- To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
- ASV
- And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?
- DARBY
- And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?
- BLB
- And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, if not to those having disobeyed?
- ÅB
- Og om hvem var det han svor at de ikke skulle komme inn til hans hvile, uten om dem som ikke hadde villet tro?
- OTB
- Og til hvem erklærte han at de ikke skulle komme inn til hans hvile, hvis ikke til dem som var ulydige?
- B1930
- Og om hvem var det han svor at de ikke skulde komme inn til hans hvile, uten om dem som ikke hadde villet tro?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 4:6
Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:34–35
When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
Read in contextNumbers 14:30
Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Read in contextPsalms 106:24–26
They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
Read in contextNumbers 20:12
But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:26–32
But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
Read in contextHebrews 3:11
So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:23
And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
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