Hebrews 3:8

Hebrews 3:8

6 but Christ as ^aa Son over His own house, ^bwhose house we are ^cif we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope¹ firm to the end.

Be Faithful

7 Therefore, as ^athe Holy Spirit says:
^b“Today, if you will hear His voice,

8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,

9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.

10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’

11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

13 but¹ exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

15 while it is said:
^a“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

16 ^aFor who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?

17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^awhose corpses fell in the wilderness?

18 And ^ato whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of ^aunbelief.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Harden not (mh sklhrunhte). Prohibition with mh and first aorist (ingressive) active subjunctive of sklhrunw, late verb from sklhrov (dried up, stiff, hard) as in Acts 19:9; Romans 9:18.

As in the provocation (wv hn tw parapikrasmw). Late compound from parapikrainw, late verb to embitter (para, pikrov), found only in LXX and here and verse Hebrews 3:15. It means embitterment, exasperation. For the simple verb pikrainw, to make bitter, see Colossians 3:19. The reference is to Meribah (Exodus 17:1-7).

Like as in the day (kata thn hmeran). "According to the day" as in Acts 12:1; Acts 19:23.

Of the temptation (tou peirasmou). The reference is to Massah which took place at Rephidim.

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