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Hebrews 3:9 KJV
Hebrews · chapter 3 · verse 9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.Hebrews 3:9 · King James Version
Hebrews 3:9 in context
7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fatherspatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- temptedpeirazōto try whether a thing can be done, to attempt, endeavour, to try, make trial of, test…G3985 →
- proveddokimazōto test, examine, prove, scrutinise , as metals, to recognise as genuine after…G1381 →
- worksergonbusiness, employment, that which any one is occupied, that which one undertakes to do…G2041 →
- fortytessarakontafortyG5062 →
- saweidōto see, to perceive with the eyes, to perceive by any of the senses, to perceive, notice…G1492 →
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Here the apostle proceeds in pressing upon them serious counsels and cautions to the close of the chapter; and he recites a passage out of Psa 95:7, etc., where observe, I. What he counsels them to do - to give a speedy and present attention to the call of Christ.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-19