Hebrews 3:16
(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but [was it] not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?
Darby 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 children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!
Numbers 14:24But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers 14:38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, lived still of the men that had gone to search out the land.
Deuteronomy 1:35None among these men, this evil generation, shall in any wise see that good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers!
Joshua 14:7Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnea to search out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
Romans 11:4But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed 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 →