Hebrews 3:16-19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 3:18

And to whom sware he - note, Hebrews 3:11.But to them that believed not - That did not confide in God; Deuteronomy 1:32. “Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God.” In consequence of this want of faith, God solemnly sware unto them that they should not enter into the promised land; Deuteronomy 1:34-35. “And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, “Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I sware to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 3:19

So we see ... - We see from the direct testimony of the Old Testament that unbelief was the reason why they were excluded from the promised land. Let us learn in view of the reasoning and exhortations here:(1) The evil of unbelief. It excluded that whole generation, consisting of many hundred thousand souls, from the land of promise - the land to which they had looked with ardent hopes, and with warm desires. It will exclude countless millions from heaven. A “lack of confidence in God” is the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 3:16

Hebrews 3:16. For some, &c. As if he had said, You have need to attend; be watchful and circumspect. For some Yea, many; when they had heard The voice of God in giving the law, and the various instructions which God granted them in the wilderness; did provoke Literally, bitterly provoke, that is, God, whose voice they heard. By this consideration the apostle enforces his exhortation; when the people, says he, of old heard the voice of God in that dispensation of his law and grace... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 3:17-18

Hebrews 3:17-18. But with whom was he grieved Or, displeased, as Macknight renders προσωχθισε ; forty years? The apostle’s answer to this inquiry consists of a double description of them. First, By their sin; was it not with them that had sinned? Secondly, By their punishment; whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? As some only, and not all provoked, so it was with some only, and not all, that God was displeased. The sins here principally intended are the general sins of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 3:19

Hebrews 3:19. So we see, &c. The conclusion we draw from the whole is, that they could not enter in because of unbelief Though afterward they desired it. In looking over the whole story of the sins of the Israelites, and of God’s dealings with them, one would be apt to fix upon some other causes of their exclusion from Canaan, as the Jews, their posterity, do at this day. But our apostle here lays it absolutely and wholly on their unbelief, which he proves to have been the chief... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:7-19

Warning against unbelief (3:7-4:13)The writer warns his disheartened Jewish readers with some reminders from Israel’s experiences in the wilderness (see Exodus 17:1-7; Numbers 20:1-13; Psalms 95:7-11). Those experiences show that people who appear to be God’s people may be so unbelieving, bitter and complaining, that they cannot enjoy the inheritance God has promised (7-11). They should resist the tendency to unbelief and stubbornness, by encouraging one another to maintain their faith with... read more

E.W. Bullinger

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 3:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 3:19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 3:16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 3:17-18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 3:19

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:7-19

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 3:16

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 3:17

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 3:18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 3:19

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