Hebrews 3:8

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“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

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  • Exod 17:7 : 7 He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the LORD, saying,“Is the LORD among us or not?”
  • Num 14:11 : 11 The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?
  • Num 14:22-23 : 22 For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me, 23 they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.
  • Deut 9:22-24 : 22 Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah. 23 And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you,“Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the LORD your God and would neither believe nor obey him. 24 You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!
  • 1 Sam 6:6 : 6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return to the LORD God of Israel.
  • Neh 9:16 : 16 “But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.
  • Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 Blessed is the one who is always cautious, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into evil.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 But your ancestors did not listen to me nor pay attention to me. They became obstinate and were more wicked than even their own forefathers.’”
  • Ezek 3:7-9 : 7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to me, for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. 8 “I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads. 9 I have made your forehead harder than flint– like diamond! Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house.”
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 “But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear. 12 Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had poured out great wrath.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
  • Acts 19:9 : 9 But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
  • Rom 2:5-6 : 5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! 6 He will reward each one according to his works:
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.
  • Heb 3:12-13 : 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God. 13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called“Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.
  • Exod 8:15 : 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

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  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

    9where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

    10For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

  • Heb 3:15-18
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    15As it says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

    16For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

  • Heb 3:7
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    7Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

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    9“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

    10“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

    11“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”

    12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

    13But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called“Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

  • Heb 4:6-7
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    6Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

    7So God again ordains a certain day,“Today,” speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts.”

  • Ps 78:40-41
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    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

    41They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

  • 1 Sam 6:6
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    6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?

  • Ps 78:8
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    8Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

    8Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.

  • Deut 8:2
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    2Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Neh 9:16
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    16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

  • Ps 78:17-18
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    17Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.

    18They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

  • Deut 10:16
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    16Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

  • Deut 9:22
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    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

  • Exod 7:13-14
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    13Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

    14The First Blow: Water to Blood The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

  • Col 3:21
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    21Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.

  • Ps 106:14
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    14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.

  • Num 32:8
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    8Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

  • Acts 7:51
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    51“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

  • Deut 6:16
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    16Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

  • Exod 10:1
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    1The Eighth Blow: Locusts The LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,

  • Deut 8:15-16
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    15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

    16fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

  • Exod 8:15
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    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
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    14But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Ps 78:56
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    56Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.

  • Exod 9:12
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    12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.

  • Exod 10:27
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    27But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.

  • Num 14:22
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    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

  • Exod 9:35
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    35So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the LORD had predicted through Moses.