Hebrews 3:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me], And saw my works forty years.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 7:36 : 36 This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
  • Exod 19:4 : 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
  • Exod 20:22 : 22 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
  • Num 14:33 : 33 And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
  • Deut 4:3 : 3 Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children's children;
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.
  • Deut 8:4 : 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
  • Deut 11:7 : 7 but your eyes have seen all the great work of Jehovah which he did.
  • Deut 29:2 : 2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
  • Josh 5:6 : 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Josh 23:3 : 3 and ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for Jehovah your God, he it is that hath fought for you.
  • Josh 24:7 : 7 And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.
  • Amos 2:10 : 10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
  • Luke 7:22 : 22 And he answered and said unto them, Go and tell John the things which ye have seen and heard; the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good tidings preached to them.
  • Acts 13:8 : 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.

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    8Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;

    9When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.

    10Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:

  • Heb 3:10-11
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    10Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;

    11As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

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    8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

  • Heb 3:15-17
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    15while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

    16For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?

    17And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Num 14:22-23
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    22because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

    23surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:

  • Ps 78:40-41
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    40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

    41And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

  • Num 32:8
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    8Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

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    18And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

  • Deut 8:2
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    2And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

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    15who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

    16who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:

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    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.

    23And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

    24Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.

  • Num 14:33-34
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    33And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

    34After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

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    15and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commandedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

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    17Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

    18And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

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    14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.

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    5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

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    36This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

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    4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

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    21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

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    7Remember, forget thou not, how thou provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah.

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    25Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

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    56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

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    9Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.

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    29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,

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    3the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:

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    8And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

  • Deut 1:33-34
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    33who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.

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    16Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

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    7For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

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    7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

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    13And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of Jehovah, was consumed.

  • Neh 9:30
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    30Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.