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Revised Standard Version

Hebrews 3:2

He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God's house.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Call;   House;   Jesus Continued;   Minister, Christian;   Obedience;   Types;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ, the High Priest;   Christ, the Prophet;   Faithfulness;   Types of Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Type, typology;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Family Life and Relations;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Mission;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Eliakim;   High Priest;   Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hebrews;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hebrews, Epistle to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Attributes of Christ;   Faithfulness;   Family;   High Priest (2);   Metaphor;   Moses;   Moses ;   Perseverance;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Moses;   Prophecy;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ses;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Author;   Faithful;   Hebrews, Epistle to the;   Spiritual House;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
God made him our high priest, and he was faithful to God just as Moses was. He did everything God wanted him to do in God's house.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
which was faythfull to him that made him even as was Moses in all his housse.
Hebrew Names Version
who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moshe in all his house.
New American Standard Bible
He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.
New Century Version
Jesus was faithful to God as Moses was in God's family.
Update Bible Version
who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
Webster's Bible Translation
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house.
English Standard Version
who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.
World English Bible
who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Jesus, Faithful to him that appointed him, as was also Moses in all his house.
Weymouth's New Testament
How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
which is trewe to hym that made hym, as also Moises in al the hous of hym.
English Revised Version
who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
Berean Standard Bible
He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.
Contemporary English Version
Jesus was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in serving all of God's people.
Amplified Bible
He was faithful to Him who appointed Him [Apostle and High Priest], as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.
American Standard Version
who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
Bible in Basic English
Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.
Complete Jewish Bible
He was faithful to God, who appointed him; just as "Moshe was faithful in all God's house."
Darby Translation
who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house.
International Standard Version
He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God'shis">[fn] household.Numbers 12:7; Hebrews 12:5;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
who was faithful to him who made him, as (was) Musha in all his house.
Murdock Translation
who was faithful to him that made him, as was Moses in all his house.
King James Version (1611)
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithfull in all his house.
New Living Translation
For he was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God's entire house.
New Life Bible
Jesus was faithful in God's house just as Moses was faithful in all of God's house.
New Revised Standard
was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also "was faithful in all God's house."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who was faithfull to him that hath appointed him, euen as Moses was in al his house.
George Lamsa Translation
Who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was faithful to all his house.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As one, faithful, to him who made him: as, Moses also, in allhis house.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his house.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beyng faythfull to hym that appoynted hym, as also [was] Moyses in all his house.
Good News Translation
He was faithful to God, who chose him to do this work, just as Moses was faithful in his work in God's house.
Christian Standard Bible®
He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God’s household.
King James Version
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
Lexham English Bible
who was faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses also was in his household.
Literal Translation
"being faithful" to Him who appointed Him, as also "Moses" was "in all his house." Num. 12:7
Young's Literal Translation
being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which is faithfull to him that ordeyned him, euen as was Moses in all his house.
Mace New Testament (1729)
who was faithful to him that constituted him such, as Moses likewise was faithful in all his administration of God's house.
New English Translation
who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God's house.
New King James Version
who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus is the key to everything. He was faithful in everything God told him to do. Moses also did what God told him to,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.
Legacy Standard Bible
who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.

Contextual Overview

1 Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession. 2 He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God's house. 3 Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house. 4 (For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ was faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

faithful: Hebrews 2:17, John 6:38-40, John 7:18, John 8:29, John 15:10, John 17:4

appointed: Gr. made, 1 Samuel 12:6

as: Hebrews 3:5, Numbers 12:7, Deuteronomy 4:5, 1 Timothy 1:12

all: Hebrews 3:6, Ephesians 2:22, 1 Timothy 3:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 39:32 - according Exodus 40:33 - So Moses Numbers 29:40 - General Deuteronomy 18:15 - like unto me Deuteronomy 18:18 - like unto Deuteronomy 31:30 - General Psalms 99:7 - kept Luke 16:10 - faithful in John 3:30 - but John 8:53 - thou greater John 9:29 - know Acts 6:11 - against Moses 1 Corinthians 10:2 - General Colossians 1:7 - a 2 Timothy 2:2 - faithful 2 Timothy 2:20 - in a Revelation 17:14 - and they

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who was faithful to him that appointed him,.... Or "made him"; Christ, as man, was made, but not as God; nor is the apostle speaking of the divine nature of Christ, but of his offices: wherefore this phrase designs the constitution and settlement of him in office; which may take in the eternal appointment of him as Mediator; the open promise of him in time; his mission, unction, and attestation from God; and his manifestation and declaration as such, at his ascension and session at God's right hand, when he was made Lord and Christ. Now, as Mediator, he had a trust reposed in him; as the persons of all God's elect, and a fulness of all grace for them; the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and eternal life and happiness; and also the glory of God in their salvation: which trust he has faithfully discharged as an apostle, and high priest; in a declaration of the whole will of God; in acknowledging it was his Father's doctrine he brought, and in seeking not his own, but his Father's glory; in redeeming and saving the persons committed to him; in distributing his grace to them; and in bringing them safe to glory; and in taking care of things pertaining to God:

as also Moses was faithful in all his house; the passage referred to is in Numbers 12:7 and which seems not so much to intend the fidelity of Moses in managing the affairs of God's house, as the largeness of the trust reposed in him, the dignity and honour conferred on him, and the power and authority he was invested with, in having the whole house of Israel committed to his care and charge, in which he exceeded all other prophets; and so the faithfulness of Christ is not so much to be understood of the discharge of his trust, as of the trust itself; and the sense is, that he was trusted much by God the Father, who constituted him Mediator, even as Moses was; and this sense best agrees with Hebrews 3:5. And De Dieu has observed, that the Hebrew word נאמן, in Misnic writings t, signifies, as it does, one that is trusted, or is fit to be trusted, as Christ and Moses were; though the former is much more worthy than the latter, as follows.

t Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 3. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who was faithful - see the note, Hebrews 2:17. He performed with fidelity all the functions entrusted to him.

To him that appointed him - Margin, “made.” The word “made,” however, is used in the sense of constituted, or appointed. The meaning is, that he was faithful to God. Perhaps Paul urges on them the necessity of considering “his fidelity” in order to keep “them” from the danger of apostasy. A leading object of this Epistle was to preserve those whom he had addressed from apostatizing from God amidst the temptations and trials to which they were exposed. In doing this, what could be a more powerful argument than to direct their attention to the unwavering constancy and fidelity of the Lord Jesus? The “importance” of such a virtue in the Saviour is manifest. It is seen everywhere; and all the great interests of the world depend on it. A husband should maintain inviolate fidelity toward a wife, and a wife toward her husband; a child should be faithful to a parent, a clerk and apprentice to his employer, a lawyer to his client, a physician to his patient, an ambassador to the government that commissions him.

No matter what may be the temptations in the way, in all these, and in all other relations, there should be inviolate fidelity. The welfare of the world depended on the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus. Had he failed in that, all would have been lost. His fidelity was worthy of the more attentive consideration from the numerous temptations which beset his path, and the attempts which were made to turn him aside from his devotedness to God. Amidst all the temptations of the adversary, and all the trials through which he passed, he never for a moment swerved from fidelity to the great trust which had been committed to his hands. What better example to preserve them from the temptations to apostasy could the apostle propose to the Christians whom he addressed? What, in these temptations and trials, could be more appropriate than for them to consider the example of the great apostle and high priest of their profession? What more proper for us now in the trials and temptations of our lives, than to keep that great and glorious example continually before our eyes?

As also Moses was faithful - Fidelity to God was remarkable in Moses. In all the provocations and rebellions of the Jews, he was firm and unwavering. This is affirmed of him in Numbers 12:7, to which place the apostle here alludes, “My servant, Moses, is not so, who is faithful in all his house.” The word “house,” as applied to Moses, is used probably in the sense of “family,” as it often is, and refers to the “family” over which he presided - that is, the Jewish nation. The whole Jewish people were a “household,” or the family of God, and Moses was appointed to preside over it, and was faithful in the functions of his office there.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 3:2. Who was faithful to him — In Numbers 12:7, God gives this testimony to Moses: My servant Moses - is faithful in all my house; and to this testimony the apostle alludes. House not only means the place where a family dwells, but also the family itself. The whole congregation of Israel was the house or family of God, and God is represented as dwelling among them; and Moses was his steward, and was faithful in the discharge of his office; strictly enforcing the Divine rights; zealously maintaining God's honour; carefully delivering the mind and will of God to the people; proclaiming his promises, and denouncing his judgments, with the most inflexible integrity, though often at the risk of his life. Jesus Christ has his house - the whole great family of mankind, for all of whom he offered his sacrificial blood to God; and the Christian Church, which is especially his own household, is composed of his own children and servants, among and in whom he lives and constantly resides. He has been faithful to the trust reposed in him as the apostle of God; he has faithfully proclaimed the will of the Most High; vindicated the Divine honour against the corrupters of God's worship; testified against them at the continual hazard of his life; and, at last, not only died as a victim to cancel sin, but also as a martyr to his faithfulness. Christ's faithfulness, says Leigh, consists in this: "That he has as fully revealed unto us the doctrine of the Gospel, as Moses did that of the law; and that he hath faithfully performed and fulfilled all the types of himself and all the things signified by Moses' ceremonies, as Moses hath faithfully and distinctly set them down."

But there is a sense given to the word נאמן neeman, Numbers 12:7, which we translate faithful, by several of the Jewish writers, which is well worthy of note: it signifies, say they, "one to whom secrets are confided, with the utmost confidence of their being safely and conscientiously kept." The secret of God was with Moses, but all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge were in Christ. Life and immortality were comparatively secrets till Christ revealed and illustrated them, and even the Divine nature was but little known, and especially the Divine philanthropy, till Jesus Christ came; and it was Jesus alone who declared that GOD whom no man had ever seen. Moses received the secrets of God, and faithfully taught them to the people; Jesus revealed the whole will of God to mankind. Moses was thus faithful to a small part of mankind, viz. the Jewish people; but in this sense Jesus was faithful to all mankind: for he was the light to enlighten the Gentiles, and the glory of his people Israel.


 
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