Numbers 14:11

Context

The Punishment from God

14:11 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise¹ me, and how long will they not believe² in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

Psalms 95:8-11

Context

95:8 He says,³ “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah,⁴

like they were that day at Massah⁵ in the wilderness,⁶

95:9 where your ancestors challenged my authority,⁷

and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

95:10 For forty years I was continually disgusted⁸ with that generation,

and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray;⁹

they do not obey my commands.’¹⁰

95:11 So I made a vow in my anger,

‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”¹¹

Hebrews 3:7-8

Context

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

3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,¹²

“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!¹³

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

Hebrews 3:15-19

Context
3:15 As it says,¹⁴ “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!¹⁵ Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”¹⁶ 3:16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?¹⁷ 3:17 And against whom was God¹⁸ provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?¹⁹ 3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 3:19 So²⁰ we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

[14:11] ¹tn The verb נָאַץ (na’ats) means “to condemn, spurn” (BDB 610 s.v.). Coats suggests that in some contexts the word means actual rejection or renunciation (Rebellion in the Wilderness, 146, 7). This would include the idea of distaste.

[14:11] ²tn The verb “to believe” (root אָמַן, ’aman) has the basic idea of support, dependability for the root. The Hiphil has a declarative sense, namely, to consider something reliable or dependable and to act on it. The people did not trust what the Lord said.

[95:8] ³tn The words “he says” are supplied in the translation to clarify that the following words are spoken by the Lord (see vv. 9-11).

[95:8] ⁴sn The name Meribah means “strife.” Two separate but similar incidents at Meribah are recorded in the Pentateuch (Exod 17:1-7; Num 20:1-13, see also Pss 81:7; 106:32). In both cases the Israelites complained about lack of water and the Lord miraculously provided for them.

[95:8] ⁵sn The name Massah means “testing.” This was another name (along with Meribah) given to the place where Israel complained following the Red Sea Crossing (see Exod 17:1-7, as well as Deut 6:16; 9:22; 33:8).

[95:8] ⁶tn Heb “do not harden your heart[s] as [at] Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness.”

[95:9] ⁷tn Heb “where your fathers tested me.”

[95:10] ⁸tn The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite or an imperfect. If the latter, it emphasizes the ongoing nature of the condition in the past. The translation reflects this interpretation of the verbal form.

[95:10] ⁹tn Heb “a people, wanderers of heart [are] they.”

[95:10] ¹⁰tn Heb “and they do not know my ways.” In this context the Lord’s “ways” are his commands, viewed as a pathway from which his people, likened to wayward sheep (see v. 7), wander.

[95:11] ¹¹tn Heb “my resting place.” The promised land of Canaan is here viewed metaphorically as a place of rest for God’s people, who are compared to sheep (see v. 7).

[3:7] ¹²sn The following quotation is from Ps 95:7b-11.

[3:7] ¹³tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

[3:15] ¹⁴tn Grk “while it is said.”

[3:15] ¹⁵tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

[3:15] ¹⁶sn A quotation from Ps 95:7b-8.

[3:16] ¹⁷tn Grk “through Moses.”

[3:17] ¹⁸tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

[3:17] ¹⁹sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.

[3:19] ²⁰tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.