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Psalm 81:8
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Psalm 81:8
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8 Hear me, my people,(A) and I will warn you—
if you would only listen to me, Israel!
Psalm 106:32
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Psalm 106:32
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Psalm 106:32
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Psalm 106:32
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32 By the waters of Meribah(A) they angered the Lord,
and trouble came to Moses because of them;
Hebrews 3:7-11
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Hebrews 3:7-11
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Israel’s Infidelity a Warning. 7 [a]Therefore, as the holy Spirit says:
“Oh, that today you would hear his voice,(A)
8 ‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion
in the day of testing in the desert,
9 where your ancestors tested and tried me
and saw my works(B) 10 for forty years.
Because of this I was provoked with that generation
and I said, “They have always been of erring heart,
and they do not know my ways.”
11 As I swore in my wrath,
“They shall not enter into my rest.”’”
Footnotes
- 3:7–4:13 The author appeals for steadfastness of faith in Jesus, basing his warning on the experience of Israel during the Exodus. In the Old Testament the Exodus had been invoked as a symbol of the return of Israel from the Babylonian exile (Is 42:9; 43:16–21; 51:9–11). In the New Testament the redemption was similarly understood as a new exodus, both in the experience of Jesus himself (Lk 9:31) and in that of his followers (1 Cor 10:1–4). The author cites Ps 95:7–11, a salutary example of hardness of heart, as a warning against the danger of growing weary and giving up the journey. To call God living (Hb 3:12) means that he reveals himself in his works (cf. Jos 3:10; Jer 10:11). The rest (Hb 3:11) into which Israel was to enter was only a foreshadowing of that rest to which Christians are called. They are to remember the example of Israel’s revolt in the desert that cost a whole generation the loss of the promised land (Hb 3:15–19; cf. Nm 14:20–29). In Hb 4:1–11, the symbol of rest is seen in deeper dimension: because the promise to the ancient Hebrews foreshadowed that given to Christians, it is good news; and because the promised land was the place of rest that God provided for his people, it was a share in his own rest, which he enjoyed after he had finished his creative work (Hb 3:3–4; cf. Gn 2:2). The author attempts to read this meaning of God’s rest into Ps 95:7–11 (Hb 3:6–9). The Greek form of the name of Joshua, who led Israel into the promised land, is Jesus (Hb 3:8). The author plays upon the name but stresses the superiority of Jesus, who leads his followers into heavenly rest. Hb 3:12, 13 are meant as a continuation of the warning, for the word of God brings judgment as well as salvation. Some would capitalize the word of God and see it as a personal title of Jesus, comparable to that of Jn 1:1–18.
Hebrews 3:7-11
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Hebrews 3:7-11
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Warning Against Unbelief
7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:(A)
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts(B)
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested and tried me,
though for forty years they saw what I did.(C)
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,(D)
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (E)”[a](F)
Footnotes
- Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
Hebrews 3:15
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Hebrews 3:15
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15 for it is said:
“Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion.’”(A)
Hebrews 3:15
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Hebrews 3:15
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Hebrews 4:3
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Hebrews 4:3
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3 For we who believed enter into [that] rest, just as he has said:(A)
“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter into my rest,’”
and yet his works were accomplished at the foundation of the world.
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Hebrews 4:3
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Hebrews 4:3
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3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,
And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 4:3 Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5
Hebrews 4:5
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Hebrews 4:5
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5 and again, in the previously mentioned place, “They shall not enter into my rest.”(A)
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Hebrews 4:5
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Hebrews 4:5
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5 And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”(A)
Hebrews 4:7
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Hebrews 4:7
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7 he once more set a day, “today,” when long afterwards he spoke through David, as already quoted:(A)
“Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
‘Harden not your hearts.’”
Hebrews 4:7
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Hebrews 4:7
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7 God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:
Footnotes
- Hebrews 4:7 Psalm 95:7,8
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