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Hebrews 3:11

So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

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ASV

As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

KJV

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ὡςhōssoG5613 →
ὤμοσαōmosaI sworeG3660 →
ἐνeninG1722 →
τῇtēatheG3588 →
ὀργῇorgēawrathG3709 →
μου·mouof Mine;G3165 →
εἰei[not]G1487 →
εἰσελεύσονταιeiseleusontaiwill they enterG1525 →
εἰςeisintoG1519 →
τὴνtēntheG3588 →
κατάπαυσίνkatapausinrestG2663 →
μου.¶mouof Mine.G3165 →

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Deuteronomy 1:34–35When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.Hebrews 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.Joshua 5:6For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.Psalms 106:26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,Deuteronomy 2:14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.Numbers 14:20–23“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.Numbers 32:10–13So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,Hebrews 4:5And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”Numbers 14:35I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”Hebrews 3:18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?Numbers 14:27–30“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”Hebrews 4:9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.Hebrews 4:1Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—Numbers 14:25Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”Hebrews 3:18–19And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

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