the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Hebrews 3:9
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For 40 years in the desert, your people saw what I did. But they tested me and my patience.
where youre fathers tempted me proved me and sawe my workes xl. yeare longe.
Where your fathers tested me by proving me, And saw my works for forty years.
WHERE YOUR FATHERS PUT ME TO THE TEST, AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS.
There your ancestors tried me and tested me and saw the things I did for forty years.
Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me,] and saw my works.
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
Where your fathers tested me by proving me, And saw my works for forty years.
Where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.
where youre fadris temptiden me, and preueden, and siyen my werkis fourti yeeris.
Wherewith your fathers tempted me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.
where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
For forty years your ancestors tested God and saw the things he did.
WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED ME BY TESTING [My forbearance and tolerance], AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS [And found I stood their test].
Where your fathers tried me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.
When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
Yes, your fathers put me to the test; they challenged me, and they saw my work for forty years!
where your fathers tempted [me], by proving [me], and saw my works forty years.
There your ancestors tested me, even though they had seen my works
when your fathers tempted me, and proved (and) saw my works forty years.
when your fathers tempted me, and proved, [fn] saw my works forty years.
When your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and saw my works fourty yeeres.
There your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw my miracles for forty years.
Your early fathers tempted Me and tried Me. They saw the work I did for forty years.
where your ancestors put me to the test, though they had seen my works
Where your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and sawe my workes fourtie yeeres long.
Your fathers tempted me even though they examined and saw my works forty years.
When your fathers tested by proving, and saw my works forty years.
Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,
Where your fathers tempted me, proued me, and sawe my workes .xl. yeres.
There they put me to the test and tried me, says God, although they had seen what I did for forty years.
where your fathers tested me, tried me,and saw my works
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
where your fathers tested me by trial and saw my works
there where your fathers tempted Me, testing Me, and saw My works forty years.
in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;
where youre fathers tempted me, proued me, and sawe my workes fortye yeares longe.
where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works.
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.
" There your fathers tested me and tried me , and they saw my works for forty years .
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.
Your granddaddies tested and tried me. They saw miracle after miracle for forty years, but still looked the other way.
WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED Me BY TESTING Me, AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS.
Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,And saw My works for forty years.
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and: Exodus 19:4, Exodus 20:22, Deuteronomy 4:3, Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 11:7, Deuteronomy 29:2, Joshua 23:3, Joshua 24:7, Luke 7:22
forty: Numbers 14:33, Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 8:4, Joshua 5:6, Amos 2:10, Acts 7:36, Acts 13:8
Reciprocal: Exodus 17:2 - wherefore Exodus 17:7 - tempted Numbers 14:22 - tempted Deuteronomy 6:16 - tempted him Psalms 95:8 - in the Psalms 95:10 - Forty Malachi 3:15 - they that tempt Matthew 4:7 - Thou Matthew 19:3 - tempting Luke 4:12 - Thou Luke 9:41 - and suffer Acts 7:42 - of forty Acts 15:10 - Why Hebrews 3:16 - some
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The man said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate."
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.
And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sar'ai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sar'ai."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When your fathers tempted me,.... This the apostle cites and repeats, to expose the glorying of the Jews in their ancestors; to dissuade them from following their sinful practices; to deter them from the same by observing both their sin and punishment; and to heighten their regards to the voice and Gospel of Christ:
proved me; this is either an explication of the former phrase; or it may design the experience this people had of the power and goodness of God, notwithstanding their tempting and provoking the Lord by a distrust of them; which is an aggravation of their sin and ingratitude, and shows the forbearance of God, and that wicked men may partake of outward favours:
and saw my works forty years; that is, God's works of providence, in furnishing them with the necessaries of life, in guiding, protecting, and supporting them for the space of forty years, in the wilderness; and his miracles, and the punishment of their enemies; yet they saw and perceived not, but all this time sinned against the Lord, see
Deuteronomy 29:2 the space of time, forty years, is in the psalm placed to the beginning of the next verse, and is joined with God's grief and indignation at the people, as it is also by the apostle, in Hebrews 3:17 but the people's sin, and God's grief at it, being of equal duration, it matters not to which it is placed, and therefore to both; perhaps, one reason of its being repeated, and so much notice taken of it is, because there was just this number of years from Christ's sufferings, to the destruction of Jerusalem; which the apostle might have in view.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Proved me - “As if they would have made an experiment how much it was possible for me to bear.” - Doddridge. The meaning is: “they put my patience to a thorough trial.”
And saw my works - That is, my miracles, or my interpositions in their behalf. They saw the wonders at the Red Sea, the descent on Mount Sinai, the supply of manna, etc., and yet while seeing those works they rebelled. Even while sinners look on the doings of God, and are surrounded by the proofs of his power and goodness, they rebel, and provoke him to anger. Men sin when God is filling their houses with plenty; when he opens his hand daily to supply their wants; when they behold the manifestations of his goodness on the sea and on the land; and even in the midst of all the blessings of redemption, they provoke him to wrath.
Forty years - The whole time during which they were passing from Egypt to the promised land. This may mean either that they saw his works forty years, or that they tempted him forty years. The sense is not materially affected whichever interpretation is preferred.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hebrews 3:9. When your fathers tempted me — It would be better to translate ου where than when, as the Vulgate has done in its ubi; and this translation has been followed by Wiclif, Coverdale, Tindal, and our first translators in general. In my old MS. Bible the 7th, 8th, and 9th verses stand thus:- Hebrews 3:7-9
Wherefore as the Holy Gost seith, to-day gif yhe han herde his voyce: nye yhe herden ghour hertis as in wrath-thinge, after the day of temptacioun in desert. Where ghoure fadris temptiden me: provyden and saiden my werkis. Wherefore fourtye yeere I was offendid or wrothe to this generatoun.
In behalf of this translation, Dr. Macknight very properly argues: "The word WHEN implies that, at the time of the bitter provocation, the Israelites had seen God's works forty years; contrary to the history, which shows that the bitter provocation happened, in the beginning of the third year after the Exodus: whereas the translation where, as well as the matter of fact, represents God as saying, by David, that the Israelites tempted God in the wilderness during forty years, notwithstanding all that time they had seen God's miracles."
