Hebrews 3:7-10

Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith

3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, ¹ 

“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! ² 

3:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, ³  and they saw my works for forty years.

3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering ⁴  and they have not known my ways.’

Hebrews 3:16-19

3:16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? ⁵  3:17 And against whom was God ⁶  provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ⁷  3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 3:19 So ⁸  we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

[3:7]  ¹ sn The following quotation is from Ps 95:7b-11.

[3:7]  ² tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

[3:9]  ³ tn Grk “tested me by trial.”

[3:10]  ⁴ tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”

[3:16]  ⁵ tn Grk “through Moses.”

[3:17]  ⁶ tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

[3:17]  ⁷ sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.

[3:19]  ⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.