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Hebrews 3:11
11So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
Hebrews 3:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into 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.’ ”
- New Living Translation (NLT)So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
Context of Hebrews 3:11
9where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. 10That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ” 12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
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ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου· εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου.¶Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Hebrews 3:11
- Hebrews 3:18And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
- Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ” And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.
- Numbers 14:20The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them, as you asked.
- Numbers 32:10The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath:
- Deuteronomy 1:34When the Lord heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore:
- Deuteronomy 2:14Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, 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
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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
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