Hebrews 3:7-11 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 3:7-19

Here the apostle proceeds in pressing upon them serious counsels and cautions to the close of the chapter; and he recites a passage out of Ps. 95:7; where observe, I. What he counsels them to do?to give a speedy and present attention to the call of Christ. ?Hear his voice, assent to, approve of, and consider, what God in Christ speaks unto you; apply it to yourselves with suitable affections and endeavours, and set about it this very day, for to-morrow it may be too late.? II. What he cautions... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 3:7-19

3:7-19 So then, as the Holy Spirit says, "If today you will hear my voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the Provocation, as happened on the day of the Temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tried to test me, and, in consequence, experienced for forty years what I could do. So my anger was kindled against that generation, and I said, 'Always they wander in their hearts; they do not know my ways.' So I swore in my anger, 'Very certainly they shall not enter in to my rest.'" Have a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:7

Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith ,.... In Psalm 95:7 today if you will hear his voice ; either the precepts of Christ, to hear which is to obey them; and this is an acknowledgment to Christ as King of saints, and is a testimony of love to him, and is wellpleasing in his sight; and in which the saints find pleasure themselves, and profit also: or the Gospel of Christ, which is a voice of love, grace, and mercy; of peace and reconciliation; of pardon and righteousness; of liberty,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:8

Harden not you hearts ,.... There is a natural hardness of the heart; the heart of man is like a stone, destitute of spiritual life, motion, and activity; it is senseless, stupid, impenitent, stubborn, and inflexible, on which no impressions can be made, but by powerful grace: and there is an acquired, habitual, and voluntary hardness of heart, to which men arrive by various steps; as entertaining pleasing thoughts of sin; an actual commission of it, with frequency, till it becomes... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:9

When your fathers tempted me ,.... This the apostle cites and repeats, to expose the glorying of the Jews in their ancestors; to dissuade them from following their sinful practices; to deter them from the same by observing both their sin and punishment; and to heighten their regards to the voice and Gospel of Christ: proved me ; this is either an explication of the former phrase; or it may design the experience this people had of the power and goodness of God, notwithstanding their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:10

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation ,.... דור המדבר , "the generation of the wilderness", as the Jews often call them; and which they say was more beloved than any generation F5 T. Hieros. Avoda Zara, fol. 39. 2. ; and yet they will not allow them a part in the world to come; See Gill on Hebrews 3:11 . When God is said to be grieved with them, it is to be considered as an anthropopathy, as speaking after the manner of men, as in Genesis 6:5 . The word signifies, that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:11

So I sware in my wrath ,.... Swearing is ascribed to God, to show the certainty of the thing spoken of; as of mercies, when he swears in love, and by his holiness; so here, of punishment, when he swears in wrath, in indignation, in sore displeasure, and the threatened evil is irrevocable and inevitable: they shall not enter into my rest ; into the land of Canaan, called God's rest, because he promised it, and gave it to the Israelites as their rest; and where he himself had a place of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:7

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today - These words are quoted from Psalm 95:7 ; and as they were written by David, and attributed here to the Holy Ghost, it proves that David wrote, by the inspiration of God's Holy Spirit. As these words were originally a warning to the Israelites not to provoke God, lest they should be excluded from that rest which he had promised them, the apostle uses them here to persuade the Christians in Palestine to hold fast their religious privileges, and,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:8

Harden not your hearts - Which ye will infallibly do, if ye will not hear his voice. Provocation - Παραπικρασμος· From παρα , signifying intensity, and πικραινω , to make bitter; the exasperation, or bitter provocation. "The Israelites provoked God first in the wilderness of Sin, (Pelusium), when they murmured for want of bread, and had the manna given them, Exodus 16:4 . From the wilderness of Sin they journeyed to Rephidim, where they provoked God a second time for want of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:9

When your fathers tempted me - It would be better to translate οὑ where than when, as the Vulgate has done in its ubi ; and this translation has been followed by Wiclif, Coverdale, Tindal, and our first translators in general. In my old MS. Bible the 7th, 8th, and 9th verses stand thus: - Wherefore as the Holy Gost seith, to-day gif yhe han herde his voyce: nye yhe herden ghour hertis as in wrath-thinge, after the day of temptacioun in desert. Where ghoure fadris temptiden me:... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 3:7-19

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 3:7-19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:9

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