Hebrews 4:8

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For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 1:15 : 15 until the LORD gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the LORD’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.”
  • Josh 22:4 : 4 Now the LORD your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes in your own land which Moses the LORD’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.
  • Heb 11:13-15 : 13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth. 14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
  • Deut 12:9 : 9 for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Deut 25:19 : 19 So when the LORD your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he is giving you as an inheritance, you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven– do not forget!
  • Josh 23:1 : 1 Joshua Challenges Israel to be Faithful A long time passed after the LORD made Israel secure from all their enemies, and Joshua was very old.
  • Ps 78:55 : 55 He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
  • Ps 105:44 : 44 He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,
  • Acts 7:45 : 45 Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 4:1-7
    7 verses
    83%

    1God’s Promised Rest Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

    2For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

    3For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

    4For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way:“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

    5but to repeat the text cited earlier:“They will never enter my rest!”

    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.”

  • Heb 4:9-11
    3 verses
    83%

    9Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

    10For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

    11Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

  • Isa 28:12
    74%

    12In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.

  • Heb 3:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

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

    19So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

  • Heb 3:11
    71%

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

  • Heb 3:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    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!

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

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29See, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Deut 12:9
    71%

    9for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Heb 8:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

    8But showing its fault, God says to them,“Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

  • Heb 3:15
    68%

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

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

    3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

  • Josh 1:13
    68%

    13“Remember what Moses the LORD’s servant commanded you. The LORD your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you.

  • Lev 26:35
    68%

    35All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

  • Ps 95:11
    68%

    11So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

  • Exod 31:17
    67%

    17It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

  • Heb 8:4
    67%

    4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

  • 1 Chr 23:25
    66%

    25For David said,“The LORD God of Israel has given his people rest and has permanently settled in Jerusalem.

  • Heb 13:8
    66%

    8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever!

  • Josh 22:4
    66%

    4Now the LORD your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes in your own land which Moses the LORD’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.

  • 1 Kgs 8:56
    66%

    56“The LORD is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled!

  • Josh 4:15
    65%

    15The LORD told Joshua,

  • Isa 62:7
    65%

    7Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

  • Matt 11:28
    65%

    28Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

  • Exod 34:21
    65%

    21“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.

  • Mark 6:31
    65%

    31He said to them,“Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while”(for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).

  • Josh 23:1
    65%

    1Joshua Challenges Israel to be Faithful A long time passed after the LORD made Israel secure from all their enemies, and Joshua was very old.

  • Josh 1:15
    65%

    15until the LORD gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the LORD’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.”

  • Exod 20:11
    65%

    11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

  • Heb 7:15
    65%

    15And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

  • Heb 11:40
    64%

    40For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

  • Heb 2:2
    64%

    2For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

  • Heb 7:11
    64%

    11Jesus and the Priesthood of Melchizedek So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood– for on that basis the people received the law– what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?

  • Heb 5:6
    64%

    6as also in another place God says,“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

  • Matt 12:8
    64%

    8For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

  • Heb 12:27
    64%

    27Now this phrase“once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

  • Heb 11:15
    64%

    15In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

  • Josh 21:44
    64%

    44The LORD made them secure, in fulfillment of all he had solemnly promised their ancestors. None of their enemies could resist them. The LORD handed all their enemies over to them.