Hebrews 3:16 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 3:16

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

BSB

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ASV

For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?

KJV

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

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Commentary

3 voices

Oecumenius

The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews (550)

For some, having heard the promises of God, just as we hear them, provoked God to anger through unbelief. For He desires to save them just as He saves those who have heard, and they are of no benefit from merely hearing the promise. Thus, …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Observe, (1.) Though the majority of hearers provoked God by unbelief, yet some there were who believed the report. (2.) Though the hearing of the word be the ordinary means of salvation, yet, if it be not hearkened to, it will expose men more to the anger of God.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For some, when they had heard, did provoke - There is a various reading here, which consists merely in the different placing of an accent, and yet gives the whole passage a different turn: - τινες, from τις, who, if read with the accent on the epsilon, τινὲς, is the plural indefinite, and signifies some, as in our translation; if read with the accent on the iota, τίνες, it has an interrogative meaning; and, according to this, the whole clause, τίνες γαρ ακουσαντες παρεπικραναν; But who were those hearers who did bitterly provoke? αλλ’ ου παντες οἱ εξελθοντες εξ Αιγυπτου δια Μωσεως; Were they not all they who came out of the land of Egypt by Moses?

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τίνες	tines	Who	G5101 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἀκούσαντες	akousantes	[were those] having heard	G191 →
παρεπίκραναν;	parepikranan	rebelled?	G3893 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
οὐ	ou	surely	G3756 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
οἱ	hoi	those	G3588 →
ἐξελθόντες	exelthontes	having come	G1831 →
ἐξ	ex	out of	G1537 →
Αἰγύπτου	Aiguptou	Egypt	G125 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
Μωϋσέως;	Mōuseōs	Moses?	G3475 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 26:65
For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
leads to
- Numbers 14:38
  Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 10:5–6
  Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- Romans 11:22
  Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
Through
Deuteronomy 1:38
Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 3:28
  But commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”
Through
Numbers 14:2
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
leads to
- Exodus 15:24
  So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
- Numbers 16:41
  The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”
- Exodus 17:3
  But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
Through
Numbers 14:30
Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 1:36–38
  except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

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01Commentary

The record, by era

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Hebrews

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Hebrews