Hebrews 3:17 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

KJV

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 10 (PSALM 76) (420)

They died, for they could not enter the promised land. They merely looked over toward the land of promise, but they could not enter it. The Jews beheld the promised land but could not enter it. They died in the desert.… We, their children, under the leadership of Jesus, have come to the Jordan and entered the promised land.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And to whom did he swear? &c. Whence observe, (1.) God is grieved only with those of his people who sin against him, and continue in sin. (2.) God is grieved and provoked most by sins publicly committed by the generality of a nation; when sin becomes epidemic, it is most provoking.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

But with whom was he grieved forty years? - With whom was he angry; see the notes at Heb 3:10. Was it not with them that had sinned - That had sinned in various ways - by rebellion, murmuring, unbelief. As God was angry with them for their sins, we have the same reason to apprehend that he will be angry with us if we sin; and we should, therefore, be on our guard against that unbelief which would lead us to depart from him; Heb 3:12. Whose carcasses fell ... - Num 14:

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τίσιν	tisin	With whom	G5101 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
προσώχθισεν	prosōchthisen	was He indignant	G4360 →
τεσσεράκοντα	tesserakonta	forty	G5062 →
ἔτη;	etē	years?	G2094 →
οὐχὶ	ouchi	Surely	G3780 →
τοῖς	tois	with those	G3588 →
ἁμαρτήσασιν	hamartēsasin	having sinned	G264 →
ὧν	hōn	whose	G3739 →
τὰ	ta	<the>	G3588 →
κῶλα	kōla	bodies	G2966 →
ἔπεσεν	epesen	fell	G4098 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ἐρήμῳ;	erēmō	wilderness?	G2048 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

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
Jude 1:5
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
leads to
- Psalms 106:26
  So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 3:16
  For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
- Numbers 26:64–65
  Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- 1 Corinthians 10:1–12
  I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
- Numbers 14:22–37
  not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Through
Numbers 14:29
Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
leads to
- Numbers 1:45
  So all the Israelites twenty years of age or older who could serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.
Through
Numbers 14:22
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
leads to
- Genesis 31:7
  And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
- Hebrews 3:17–18
  And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

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