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Hebrews 3:8
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do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,on the day of testing in the wilderness,
Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, in the day of temptation in the wildernesse:
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS ON THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,
Do not be stubborn as in the past when you turned against God, when you tested God in the desert.
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,
Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
don't be stubborn! Don't rebel like those people who were tested in the desert.
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;
don't be stubborn as you were in the past, when you turned against God. That was the day you tested God in the desert.
Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, according to the day of the tentation in the wildernes,
Harden not your hearts to provoke him, as the murmurers did in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were when they rebelled against God, as they were that day in the desert when they put him to the test.
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS [your fathers did] IN THE REBELLION [of Israel at Meribah], ON THE DAY OF TESTING IN THE WILDERNESS,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
do not harden your heartsas they did when they provoked meduring the time of testing in the wilderness.
harden not your hearts unto the angering of him, as (did) the embitterers [fn] , and as the day of temptation in the desert,
harden not your hearts to anger him, like the provocators, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
Harden not your heartes, as in the prouokyng, in the day of the temptation in the wyldernesse,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation , in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,
as in wraththing, lijk the dai of temptacioun in desert;
Do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
" Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion , in the day of testing in the wilderness .
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,
don't harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested me in the wilderness.
do not let your hearts become hard as your early fathers did when they turned against Me. It was at that time in the desert when they put Me to the test.
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness,
harden your hearts, - as in the embitterment, in the day of testing in the desert,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
harden not youre hertes after the rebellyon in the daye of temptacion in the wildernes
ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
harden not youre hertes, as in the prouokynke in the daye of temptacion in the wyldernes,
harden not your hearts, as at Meriba and Massa in the desart:
The Centerpiece of All We Believe So, my dear Christian friends, companions in following this call to the heights, take a good hard look at Jesus. He's the centerpiece of everything we believe, faithful in everything God gave him to do. Moses was also faithful, but Jesus gets far more honor. A builder is more valuable than a building any day. Every house has a builder, but the Builder behind them all is God. Moses did a good job in God's house, but it was all servant work, getting things ready for what was to come. Christ as Son is in charge of the house. Now, if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence, we're the house! That's why the Holy Spirit says, Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in "the bitter uprising," that time of wilderness testing! Even though they watched me at work for forty years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way; over and over they tried my patience. And I was provoked, oh, so provoked! I said, "They'll never keep their minds on God; they refuse to walk down my road." Exasperated, I vowed, "They'll never get where they're going, never be able to sit down and rest." So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God. For as long as it's still God's Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn't slow down your reflexes. If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we're in this with Christ for the long haul. These words keep ringing in our ears: Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising. For who were the people who turned a deaf ear? Weren't they the very ones Moses led out of Egypt? And who was God provoked with for forty years? Wasn't it those who turned a deaf ear and ended up corpses in the wilderness? And when he swore that they'd never get where they were going, wasn't he talking to the ones who turned a deaf ear? They never got there because they never listened, never believed.
Don't let your hearts turn to stone like Israel did when they turned their backs on me in the wilderness.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Harden: Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 3:13, Exodus 8:15, 1 Samuel 6:6, 2 Kings 17:14, 2 Chronicles 30:8, 2 Chronicles 36:13, Nehemiah 9:16, Job 9:4, Proverbs 28:14, Proverbs 29:1, Jeremiah 7:26, Ezekiel 3:7-9, Daniel 5:20, Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:12, Matthew 13:15, Acts 19:9, Romans 2:5, Romans 2:6
as: Numbers 14:11, Numbers 14:22, Numbers 14:23, Deuteronomy 9:22-24, Psalms 78:56
of: Exodus 17:7, Deuteronomy 6:16, Psalms 78:18, Psalms 106:14, 1 Corinthians 10:9
Reciprocal: Genesis 19:15 - hastened Exodus 7:13 - General Numbers 32:10 - General Deuteronomy 1:34 - and sware Deuteronomy 2:14 - until all the generation Joshua 4:10 - hasted 2 Samuel 23:2 - General Job 8:5 - thou wouldest Psalms 78:41 - Yea Psalms 95:8 - in the Psalms 106:25 - hearkened Isaiah 44:1 - now Hosea 13:13 - for he Micah 6:1 - ye Mark 12:36 - by Mark 16:14 - unbelief Luke 4:12 - Thou Luke 8:6 - General Luke 9:35 - hear Luke 13:25 - once John 12:35 - Yet Acts 1:16 - which the Acts 17:32 - We will Acts 24:25 - when Ephesians 4:21 - heard Hebrews 3:15 - To day Hebrews 4:7 - saying
Cross-References
Now the serpent was more crafty than any wild animal which Adonai , God, had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, ‘You are not to eat from any tree in the garden'?"
The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the garden,
but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, ‘You are neither to eat from it nor touch it, or you will die.'"
Adonai , God, called to the man, "Where are you?"
He answered, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself."
The man replied, "The woman you gave to be with me — she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate."
Adonai , God, made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
(A: v, S: iv) Adonai , God, said, "See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, to prevent his putting out his hand and taking also from the tree of life, eating, and living forever — "
Did any other people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and stay alive?
" Adonai heard what you were saying when you spoke to me, and Adonai said to me, ‘I have heard what this people has said when speaking to you, and everything they have said is good.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 customary, and so habitual; an extenuation or justification of it, and so they become hardened against all reproofs and sermons, and to all afflictions and judgments; are insensible and past feeling, and openly declare for sin, and glory in it: and there is a hardness which God's people are liable to, and should guard against; and which is brought on by a neglect of private and public worship, and by keeping bad company, and through the ill examples of others, and by giving way to lesser sins; for all sin is of an hardening nature:
as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness; the Jews provoked God in the wilderness by their unbelief, murmurings, ingratitude, and idolatry; and they tempted him there by distrusting his power and goodness; hence one of the places in which they murmured against him was called Massah and Meribah, Exodus 17:7 and it is an aggravation of their sin, that it was in the wilderness, after they had been just brought out of bondage into liberty, and had lately had such an instance of the power and goodness of God, in bringing them through the Red sea; and where they could have no human supplies, and therefore should have been entirely dependent on God, and trust in him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Harden not your hearts - Do not render the heart insensible to the divine voice and admonition. A hard heart is that where the conscience is seared and insensible; where truth makes no impression; where no religious effect is produced by afflictions; where preaching is listened to without interest; and where the mind is unaffected by the appeals of friends. The idea here is, that a refusal to listen to the voice of God is connected with a hardening of the heart. It is in two ways:
- The very refusal to do this tends to harden it. And,
(2)In order to resist the appeals of God, people must resort to the means of “voluntarily” hardening the heart. This they do by setting themselves against the truth; by the excuses which they offer for not becoming Christians: by plunging into sin in order to avoid serious impressions; and by direct resistance of the Holy Spirit. No inconsiderable part of the efforts of sinners consists in endeavoring to produce insensibility in their minds to the truth and the appeals of God.
As in the provocation - Literally, “in the embittering” - ἐν τῶ παραπικρασμῶ en tō parapikrasmō. Then it means what embitters or provokes the mind - as disobedience. Here it refers to what they did to “embitter” the mind of God against them; that is to the course of conduct which was adopted to provoke him to wrath.
In the day of temptation - In the time of temptation - the word “day” being used here, as it is often, to denote an indefinite period, or “time” in general. The word “temptation” here refers to the various provocations by which they “tried” the patience of God. They rebelled against him; they did what put the divine patience and forbearance to a trial. It does not mean that they tempted God to do evil, but that his long-suffering was “tried” by their sins.
In the wilderness - The desert through which they passed. The word “wilderness” in the Scriptures commonly means a “desert;” see the notes at Matthew 3:1. “One provocation was in demanding bread at Sin; a second for want of water at Massah or Meribah; a third time at Sinai with the golden calf; a fourth time at Taberah for want of flesh; a fifth time at Kadesh when they refused to go up into Canaan, and the oath came that they should die in the wilderness. A like refusal may prevent us from entering into rest.” - Dr. John P. Wilson, Manuscript Notes.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 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 water, and insolently saying, Is the Lord God among us or not? Exodus 17:2-9, on which account the place was called Massah and Meribah. See "1 Corinthians 10:4", note 1. From Rephidim they went into the wilderness of Sinai, where they received the law, in the beginning of the third year from their coming out of Egypt. Here they provoked God again, by making the golden calf, Exodus 32:10. After the law was given they were commanded to go directly to Canaan, and take possession of the promised land, Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:7: God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vales, and in the south, and by the seaside, to the land if the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, and unto the great river, the river Euphrates. The Israelites, having received this order, departed from Horeb, and went forward three days' journey, Numbers 10:33, till they came to Taberah, Numbers 11:3, where they provoked God the fourth time, by murmuring for want of flesh to eat; and for that sin were smitten with a very great plague, Numbers 11:33; this place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted. From Kibroth-hattaavah they went to Hazeroth, Numbers 11:35, and from thence into the wilderness of Paran, Numbers 12:16, to a place called Kadesh, Numbers 13:26. Their journey from Horeb to Kadesh is thus described by Moses, Deuteronomy 1:19-21: And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and, we came to Kadesh-barnea. And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee; go up and possess it. But the people proposed to Moses to send spies, to bring them an account of the land, and of its inhabitants, Deuteronomy 1:22. These after forty days returned to Kadesh; and, except Caleb and Joshua, they all agreed in bringing an evil report of the land, Numbers 13:25-32; whereby the people were so discouraged that they refused to go up, and proposed to make a captain, and return into Egypt, Numbers 14:4. Wherefore, having thus shown an absolute disbelief of God's promises, and an utter distrust of his power, he sware that not one of that generation should enter Canaan, except Caleb and Joshua, but should all die in the wilderness, Numbers 14:20; Deuteronomy 1:34; Deuteronomy 1:35; and ordered them to turn, and get into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea. In that wilderness the Israelites, as Moses informs us, sojourned thirty-eight years, Deuteronomy 2:14: And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zereb, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them. Wherefore, although the Israelites provoked God to wrath in the wilderness, from the day they came out of the land of Egypt until their arrival in Canaan, as Moses told them, Deuteronomy 9:7, their greatest provocation, the provocation in which they showed the greatest degree of evil disposition, undoubtedly was their refusing to go into Canaan from Kadesh. It was therefore very properly termed the bitter provocation and the day of temptation, by way of eminence; and justly brought on them the oath of God, excluding them from his rest in Canaan. To distinguish this from the provocation at Rephidim, it is called Meribah-Kadesh," Deuteronomy 32:51. See Dr. Macknight.
