Hebrews 4:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 1:15 : 15 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.'"
  • Josh 22:4 : 4 Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
  • Heb 11:13-15 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
  • Deut 12:9 : 9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Deut 25:19 : 19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
  • Josh 23:1 : 1 It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
  • Ps 78:55 : 55 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
  • Ps 105:44 : 44 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
  • Acts 7:45 : 45 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 4:1-7
    7 verses
    83%

    1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

    2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.

    3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

    4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

    5 and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."

    6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

    7 he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."

  • Heb 4:9-11
    3 verses
    83%

    9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

    10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

    11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • Isa 28:12
    74%

    12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear.

  • Heb 3:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

    19 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

  • Heb 3:11
    71%

    11 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

  • Heb 3:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

    8 don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

    30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Deut 12:9
    71%

    9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Heb 8:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

    8 For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

  • Heb 3:15
    68%

    15 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

    3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

  • Josh 1:13
    68%

    13 "Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, 'Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.

  • Lev 26:35
    68%

    35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.

  • Ps 95:11
    68%

    11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."

  • Exod 31:17
    67%

    17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"

  • Heb 8:4
    67%

    4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

  • 1 Chr 23:25
    66%

    25 For David said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

  • Heb 13:8
    66%

    8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  • Josh 22:4
    66%

    4 Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.

  • 1 Kgs 8:56
    66%

    56 "Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

  • Josh 4:15
    65%

    15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Isa 62:7
    65%

    7 and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

  • Matt 11:28
    65%

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

  • Exod 34:21
    65%

    21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

  • Mark 6:31
    65%

    31 He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

  • Josh 23:1
    65%

    1 It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

  • Josh 1:15
    65%

    15 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.'"

  • Exod 20:11
    65%

    11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

  • Heb 7:15
    65%

    15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

  • Heb 11:40
    64%

    40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Heb 2:2
    64%

    2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

  • Heb 7:11
    64%

    11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

  • Heb 5:6
    64%

    6 As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."

  • Matt 12:8
    64%

    8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

  • Heb 12:27
    64%

    27 This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

  • Heb 11:15
    64%

    15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

  • Josh 21:44
    64%

    44 Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.