Hebrews 3:18

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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?

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  • Deut 1:34-35 : 34 And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath, 35 Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,
  • Deut 9:23 : 23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.
  • Ps 106:24-26 : 24 They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word; 25 Talking against him secretly in their tents, they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord. 26 So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:
  • Heb 3:11 : 11 And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
  • Heb 4:2 : 2 And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.
  • Heb 4:6 : 6 So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,
  • Num 14:11 : 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?
  • Num 14:23 : 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.
  • Num 14:30 : 30 Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
  • Num 20:12 : 12 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.
  • Deut 1:26-32 : 26 But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up: 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. 28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 29 Then I said to you, Have no fear of them. 30 The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place. 32 But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 3:19
    86%

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

  • Heb 3:7-12
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    7 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

    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.

    12 My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

  • Heb 3:15-17
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    84%

    15 As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

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

    17 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?

  • Ps 95:10-11
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    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 4:1-11
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    1 Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.

    2 And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.

    3 For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

    4 For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day;

    5 And in the same place he says again, They will not come into my rest.

    6 So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,

    7 After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

    8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.

    9 So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

    10 For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.

    11 Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

  • Num 14:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Ps 78:32
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    32 For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

  • Ps 106:24-25
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    74%

    24 They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

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

  • Heb 11:38-39
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    38 Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

    39 And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,

  • 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;

  • Ps 78:22
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    22 Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

  • Isa 28:12
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    12 To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.

  • Num 20:12
    72%

    12 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.

  • Num 14:29-30
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    71%

    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,

    30 Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.

  • Deut 9:23
    71%

    23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.

  • Num 14:16
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 1:34-35
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    71%

    34 And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

    35 Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,

  • Rom 3:3
    71%

    3 And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?

  • 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.

  • Deut 1:32
    70%

    32 But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,

  • Jude 1:5
    70%

    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;

  • 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!

  • Num 14:11
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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?

  • Ps 78:37
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    37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

  • Josh 5:6
    69%

    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.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.