Hebrews 3:11

Hebrews 3:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
• New International Version (NIV)So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
• English Standard Version (ESV)As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'"
• New King James Version (NKJV)So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

Context of Hebrews 3:11

9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. 10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” 12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. 13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Hebrews 3:11 word by word

ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου· εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου.¶Read the interlinear

• Soὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• I swore on oathὄμνυμιomnuō · to swearG3660
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• Myἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• angerὀργήorgē · wrathG3709
• They shall never enterεἰei · if: notG1487
• They shall never enterεἰσέρχομαιeiserchomai · to enterG1525
• They shall never enterεἰςeis · towardG1519
• restκατάπαυσιςkatapausis · restG2663

Cross-references for Hebrews 3:11

• Hebrews 3:18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
• Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
• Numbers 14:20“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
• Numbers 32:10So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
• Deuteronomy 1:34When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
• Deuteronomy 2:14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
• Hebrews 4:9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Commentaries on Hebrews 3:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11So I sware in my wrath - God's grief at their continued disobedience became wrath at their final impenitence, and therefore he excluded them from the promised rest.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11So I sware in my wrath - God is often represented in the Scriptures as “swearing” - and usually as swearing by himself, or by his own existence. Of course this in figurative, and denotes a strong affirmation, or a settled and determined purpose. An oath with us implies the strongest affirmation, or the expression of the most settled and determined purpose of mind. The meaning here is, that so refractory and perverse had they showed themselves, that he…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 Days of temptation are often days of provocation. But to provoke God, when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, is a provocation indeed. The hardening of the heart is the spring of all other sins. The sins of others, especially of our relations, should be warnings to us. All sin, especially sin committed by God's professing, privileged people, not only provokes God, but it grieves him. God is loth to destroy any in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11Rebellion has consequences. God’s anger is not just an emotional reaction. It is his fair and just response to sin (John 3:36; Romans 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 2:16). God's promise (see Hebrews 6:13–20; 7:20–22, 28) was that they would never enter Canaan, the land of rest from their travels (Deuteronomy 1:19–46; 3:20; 12:10; Joshua 1:13).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-117-11. Exhortation from Psa 95:7-11, not through unbelief to lose participation in the spiritual house. Seeing that we are the house of God if we hold fast our confidence ... (He 3:6). Jesus is "faithful," be not ye unfaithful (He 3:2, 12). The sentence beginning with "wherefore," interrupted by the parenthesis confirming the argument from Psa 95:7-11, is completed at He 3:12, "Take heed," &c. Holy Ghost saith--by the inspired Psalmist; so that the words…Read the comment

Topics related to Hebrews 3:11

• Anger
• Oath
• Procrastination
• Prophecy
• Reprobacy
• Self-Will
• Symbols and Similitudes

In the dictionaries

• Apostle
• Holy Ghost
• Moses
• Unbelief
• Congregation
• Faint
• Faithful; Faithfulness
• Hebrews, Epistle to the
• Mark
• Papyrus

Commentaries on Hebrews 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings