Discovery BoxHebrews 3:10-19
Context3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering 1 and they have not known my ways.’
3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” 2
3:12 See to it, 3 brothers and sisters, 4 that none of you has 5 an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes 6 the living God. 7 3:13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception. 3:14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence 8 firm until the end. 3:15 As it says, 9 “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 10 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” 11 3:16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? 12 3:17 And against whom was God 13 provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 14 3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 3:19 So 15 we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.
[3:10] 1 tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”
[3:11] 2 tn Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.
[3:12] 4 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.
[3:12] 5 tn Grk “that there not be in any of you.”
[3:12] 6 tn Or “deserts,” “rebels against.”
[3:12] 7 tn Grk “in forsaking the living God.”
[3:14] 8 tn Grk “the beginning of the confidence.”
[3:15] 9 tn Grk “while it is said.”
[3:15] 10 tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”
[3:15] 11 sn A quotation from Ps 95:7b-8.
[3:16] 12 tn Grk “through Moses.”
[3:17] 13 tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.
[3:17] 14 sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.
[3:19] 15 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.
