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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

诗篇 95:8

就不要硬著心,好像在米利巴,就是在曠野的瑪撒的日子一樣。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Obduracy (Hardness);   Prophecy;   Quotations and Allusions;   Repentance;   Unbelief;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hardness (of Heart);   Heart;   Penitence-Impenitence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heart, the;   Procrastination;   Repentance;   Self-Will and Stubbornness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Inspiration;   Testing;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hardening, Hardness of Heart;   Hebrews, Theology of;   Time;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Heart;   Massah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Meribah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hardness of the Heart;   Massah;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Provocation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hardening;   Knee, Kneel;   Massah and Meribah;   Provoke;   Psalms;   Temptation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Commandment;   Hardening of Heart;   Wilderness (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Meribali;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mas'sah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Massah and Meribah;   Provocation;   Psalms, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Meribah;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 不 可 硬 着 心 , 像 当 日 在 米 利 巴 , 就 是 在 旷 野 的 玛 撒 。

Contextual Overview

7 because he is our God and we are the people he takes care of, the sheep that he tends. Today listen to what he says: 8 "Do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah, as they were that day at Massah in the desert. 9 There your ancestors tested me and tried me even though they saw what I did. 10 I was angry with those people for forty years. I said, ‘They are not loyal to me and have not understood my ways.' 11 I was angry and made a promise, ‘They will never enter my rest.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Harden: Exodus 8:15, 1 Samuel 6:6, Daniel 5:20, Acts 19:9, Romans 2:5, Hebrews 3:13, Hebrews 12:25

in the: Exodus 17:2, Exodus 17:7, Numbers 14:11, Numbers 14:22, Numbers 14:27, Numbers 20:13, Deuteronomy 1:34, Deuteronomy 1:35, Deuteronomy 6:16, Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:9, Hebrews 3:15-19, Jude 1:5

provocation: Heb. contention

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:7 - from the day 2 Kings 19:3 - blasphemy 2 Chronicles 24:19 - but they would Nehemiah 9:16 - hardened Psalms 78:17 - General Psalms 78:40 - How oft Psalms 106:14 - tempted Psalms 119:60 - made Isaiah 37:3 - blasphemy Ezekiel 2:4 - they Ezekiel 20:13 - rebelled Zephaniah 2:2 - before the day of Matthew 19:8 - because Mark 16:14 - unbelief Luke 19:42 - in this John 20:25 - Except Acts 5:9 - to tempt Acts 13:18 - about

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Harden not your hearts,.... Against Christ, against his Gospel, against all the light and evidence of it. There is a natural hardness of the heart, owing to the corruption of nature; and an habitual hardness, acquired by a constant continuance and long custom in sinning; and there is a judicial hardness, which God gives men up unto. There is a hardness of heart, which sometimes attends God's own people, through the deceitfulness of sin gaining upon them; of which, when sensible, they complain, and do well to guard against. Respect seems to be had here to the hardness of heart in the Jews in the times of Christ and his apostles, which the Holy Ghost foresaw, and here dehorts from; who, notwithstanding the clear evidence of Jesus being the Messiah, from prophecy, from miracles, from doctrines, from the gifts of the Spirit, c. yet hardened their hearts against him, rebelled against light, and would not receive, but reject him:

as in the provocation or "as at Meribah" h; a place so called from the contention and striving of the people of Israel with the Lord and his servants; and when they provoked not only the meek man Moses to speak unadvisedly with his lips; but also the Lord himself by their murmurings, Exodus 17:7 though this may respect their provocations in general in the wilderness; for they often provoked him by their unbelief, ingratitude, and idolatry; see Deuteronomy 9:8,

and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness; or "as in the day of Massah" i; the time when they tempted him at Massah, so called from their tempting him by distrusting his power and presence among them, by disobeying his commands, and limiting the Holy One of Israel to time and means of deliverance; see Exodus 17:7 and this being in the wilderness was an aggravation of their sin; they being just brought out of Egypt, and having had such a wonderful appearance of God for them, there and at the Red sea; and besides being in a place where their whole dependence must be upon God, where they could have nothing but what they had from him immediately, it was egregious folly as well as wickedness to provoke and tempt him.

h כמריבה "sicut Meribah", Montanus; "sicut in Meriba", Musculus, Tigurine version, Gejerus, Michaelis, so Ainsworth. i כיום מסה "sicut die Massah", Montanus, Musculus, Tigurine version; "secundum diem Massah", Gejerus, Michaelis, so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Harden not your heart - See this verse explained in the notes at Hebrews 3:8.

As in the provocation ... - Margin, “contention.” The original is “Meribah.” See Exodus 17:7, where the original words Meribah, rendered here “provocation,” and “Massah,” rendered here “temptation,” are retained in the translation.


 
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