Hebrews 3:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

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  • Num 14:29 : 29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,
  • Jude 1:5 : 5 Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;
  • Num 14:22 : 22 Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;
  • Num 14:32-33 : 32 But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land. 33 And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.
  • Num 26:64-65 : 64 But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai. 65 For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.
  • Deut 2:15-16 : 15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead. 16 So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,
  • Jer 9:22 : 22 The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.
  • 1 Cor 10:1-9 : 1 For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea; 2 And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And they all took the same holy food; 4 And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land. 6 Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did. 7 Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure. 8 Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day. 9 And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes. 10 And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them. 11 Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come. 12 So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall. 13 You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

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  • Heb 3:18-19
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    18 And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

    19 So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.

  • Ps 78:40
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    40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

  • 1 Cor 10:5
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    5 But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

  • Heb 3:16
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    16 Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

  • Ps 95:9-11
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    9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.

    10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

    11 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

  • Heb 3:8-11
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    8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

    9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

    10 So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;

    11 And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.

  • Num 14:29
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    29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

  • Acts 13:18
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    18 And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

  • Num 32:13
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    13 Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

  • Num 14:32-34
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    32 But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.

    33 And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

    34 And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.

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    11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

  • Josh 5:6
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    6 For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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    16 Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

  • Num 32:10-11
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    10 And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

    11 Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

  • Deut 1:34
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    34 And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

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    17 And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

  • Num 14:22-23
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    22 Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

    23 They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

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    2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

    3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

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    14 Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.

    15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

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    27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

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    37 And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:

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    27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

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    14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22 Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

  • Heb 4:6
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    51 Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.

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    25 Talking against him secretly in their tents, they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord.

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    2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

  • Acts 7:36
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    36 This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

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    14 Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)

  • Acts 7:39
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    39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

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    8 Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

  • Deut 3:26
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    26 But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not give ear to my prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be enough, say no more about this thing.

  • Ps 78:31
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    31 The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

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    21 Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

  • Num 20:4
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    4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

  • Num 11:33
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    33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.