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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/hebrews/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/hebrews/3.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />So I declared on oath in my anger, &#8216They shall never enter my rest.&#8217&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/hebrews/3.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hebrews/3.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hebrews/3.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/hebrews/3.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />so I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter into My rest.'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hebrews/3.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hebrews/3.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hebrews/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />AS I SWORE IN MY ANGER, ‘THEY CERTAINLY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hebrews/3.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, &#8216THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.&#8217&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hebrews/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hebrews/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hebrews/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />SO I SWORE [an oath] IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST [the promised land].’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hebrews/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />So I swore in my anger, “They will not enter my rest.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hebrews/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />So I swore in My anger, &#8220They will not enter My rest.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hebrews/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hebrews/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />God became angry and told the people, 'You will never enter my place of rest!'" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hebrews/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hebrews/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />So I angrily took a solemn oath that they would never enter my place of rest."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hebrews/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I was angry and made a solemn promise: 'They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest!'" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hebrews/3.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hebrews/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />So I swore on oath in My anger, ?They shall never enter My rest.??<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hebrews/3.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter my rest!'" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hebrews/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hebrews/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/hebrews/3.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest" --<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hebrews/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hebrews/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />so I swore in My anger, They will [not] enter into My rest.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/hebrews/3.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />so I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter into My rest.'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hebrews/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !')<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hebrews/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.)<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hebrews/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hebrews/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />So it is as I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hebrews/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />As I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter into my rest.” ’ ” <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hebrews/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />As in my anger I swore, ‘They will not enter my rest.’”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hebrews/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />So I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/hebrews/3.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />And I swore in my anger, 'They shall not enter my rest.'”<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/hebrews/3.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />so that I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/hebrews/3.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />as I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/hebrews/3.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/hebrews/3.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />so I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/hebrews/3.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest" --<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/hebrews/3.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />as I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest.'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/hebrews/3.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />so I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hebrews/3-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x-IAXXp5zcA?start=409" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hebrews/3.htm">Do Not Harden Your Hearts</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/5613.htm" title="5613: hōs (Adv) -- Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.">So</a> <a href="/greek/3660.htm" title="3660: ōmosa (V-AIA-1S) -- A prolonged form of a primary, but obsolete omo, for which another prolonged form omoo is used in certain tenses; to swear, i.e. Take oath.">I swore on oath</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: mou (PPro-G1S) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.">My</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tē (Art-DFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/3709.htm" title="3709: orgē (N-DFS) -- From oregomai; properly, desire, i.e., violent passion (justifiable) abhorrence); by implication punishment.">anger,</a> <a href="/greek/1487.htm" title="1487: Ei (Conj) -- If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.">‘</a> <a href="/greek/1525.htm" title="1525: eiseleusontai (V-FIM-3P) -- To go in, come in, enter. From eis and erchomai; to enter.">They shall never enter</a> <a href="/greek/1519.htm" title="1519: eis (Prep) -- A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases."></a> <a href="/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: mou (PPro-G1S) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.">My</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēn (Art-AFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2663.htm" title="2663: katapausin (N-AFS) -- From katapauo; reposing down, i.e. abode.">rest.’”</a> </span> <span class="reftext">12</span>See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/95-11.htm">Psalm 95:11</a></span><br />So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/14-22.htm">Numbers 14:22-23</a></span><br />not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times— / not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/14-28.htm">Numbers 14:28-30</a></span><br />So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. / Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me. / Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-34.htm">Deuteronomy 1:34-35</a></span><br />When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying, / “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/78-40.htm">Psalm 78:40-41</a></span><br />How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! / Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/106-24.htm">Psalm 106:24-26</a></span><br />They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. / They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. / So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-5.htm">1 Corinthians 10:5-11</a></span><br />Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. / These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. / Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm">Hebrews 4:3</a></span><br />Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-5.htm">Hebrews 4:5</a></span><br />And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-6.htm">Hebrews 4:6-7</a></span><br />Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience, / God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-9.htm">Hebrews 4:9-11</a></span><br />There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. / For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. / Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/3-18.htm">Hebrews 3:18-19</a></span><br />And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? / So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/10-26.htm">Hebrews 10:26-31</a></span><br />If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, / but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries. / Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm">Hebrews 12:25</a></span><br />See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/7-21.htm">Matthew 7:21-23</a></span><br />Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. / Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ / Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)</p><p class="hdg">I sware.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hebrews/3-18.htm">Hebrews 3:18,19</a></b></br> And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm">Hebrews 4:3</a></b></br> For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/14-20.htm">Numbers 14:20-23,25,27-30,35</a></b></br> And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: … </p><p class="hdg">They shall not enter.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hebrews/4-9.htm">Hebrews 4:9</a></b></br> There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/romans/15-27.htm">Admitted</a> <a href="/1_timothy/2-8.htm">Anger</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-10.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/hebrews/2-3.htm">Declared</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-6.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/acts/23-21.htm">Oath</a> <a href="/1_timothy/5-20.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/luke/1-73.htm">Sware</a> <a href="/acts/23-12.htm">Swore</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-10.htm">They</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-3.htm">Wrath</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hebrews/3-18.htm">Admitted</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm">Anger</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-15.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm">Declared</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-18.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-18.htm">Oath</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-18.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-18.htm">Sware</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm">Swore</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm">They</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm">Wrath</a><div class="vheading2">Hebrews 3</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hebrews/3-1.htm">Christ is more worthy than Moses;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hebrews/3-7.htm">therefore if we believe not in him, we shall be more worthy punishment than hardhearted Israel.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hebrews/3.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hebrews/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/hebrews/3.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>So I swore on oath in My anger</b><br>This phrase reflects God's response to the Israelites' persistent disobedience and lack of faith during their wilderness journey. The swearing of an oath by God emphasizes the seriousness and irrevocability of His decision. In biblical times, an oath was a solemn promise, often invoking divine witness, and breaking it was considered a grave offense. God's anger here is not capricious but a righteous response to the Israelites' rebellion, as seen in <a href="/numbers/14-11.htm">Numbers 14:11-23</a>, where God expresses His frustration with their lack of trust despite the miracles they witnessed. This anger is consistent with God's character as depicted throughout the Old Testament, where He is patient but also just.<p><b>‘They shall never enter My rest.’”</b><br>The "rest" referred to here is both a physical and spiritual concept. Historically, it points to the Promised Land, which the Israelites were to enter after their exodus from Egypt. However, due to their unbelief and disobedience, that generation was denied entry, as detailed in <a href="/numbers/14-30.htm">Numbers 14:30</a>. Spiritually, this rest symbolizes the peace and fulfillment found in a relationship with God, which is ultimately fulfilled in Christ. The New Testament, particularly in <a href="/hebrews/4.htm">Hebrews 4:1-11</a>, expands on this idea, presenting the rest as a type of the eternal rest believers will experience in God's presence. This rest is also a foreshadowing of the Sabbath rest, a theme that runs throughout Scripture, beginning with God's rest on the seventh day of creation in <a href="/genesis/2-2.htm">Genesis 2:2-3</a>. The warning serves as a reminder of the consequences of unbelief and the importance of faith in entering God's rest.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>- The speaker in this verse, expressing His judgment and decision regarding the disobedient Israelites.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a></b><br>- The people who wandered in the wilderness and whose disobedience and lack of faith led to God's declaration.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness.htm">The Wilderness</a></b><br>- The place where the Israelites wandered for 40 years due to their unbelief and rebellion.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/c/canaan.htm">Canaan</a></b><br>- The Promised Land, symbolizing God's rest, which the disobedient generation was barred from entering.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>- The leader of the Israelites during the Exodus, who also did not enter the Promised Land due to disobedience.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_seriousness_of_disobedience.htm">The Seriousness of Disobedience</a></b><br>God's oath in His anger highlights the gravity of disobedience and unbelief. It serves as a warning to take God's commands seriously and to live in obedience.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_nature_of_god's_rest.htm">The Nature of God's Rest</a></b><br>The "rest" mentioned is not merely physical but spiritual, symbolizing peace and fulfillment in God's presence. Believers are called to strive to enter this rest through faith and obedience.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_faith.htm">The Importance of Faith</a></b><br>The Israelites' failure was rooted in unbelief. Faith is essential for entering God's rest, and believers must guard against a hardened heart.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/learning_from_the_past.htm">Learning from the Past</a></b><br>The history of Israel serves as a lesson for Christians today. We are encouraged to learn from their mistakes and to remain faithful and obedient to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/e/encouragement_to_persevere.htm">Encouragement to Persevere</a></b><br>The warning in <a href="/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11</a> is coupled with encouragement to persevere in faith. Believers are urged to hold firmly to their confidence in Christ.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hebrews_3.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hebrews 3</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_heb._3_11_align_with_god's_love.htm">Hebrews 3:11 alludes to God’s wrath preventing entry into rest; how does this align with a loving God in contrast to other biblical passages emphasizing divine mercy? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_little_archeological_proof_for_heb._3_7-11.htm">In Hebrews 3:7-11, the reference to Israel's rebellion in the wilderness implies widespread miraculous events; why is there so little corroborating archeological evidence for these events?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_believers_enter_god's_rest_amid_turmoil.htm">From Hebrews 4:1-3, how can we reconcile the promise of 'entering his rest' when believers throughout history still face turmoil, suffering, and unrest?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_god's_mercy_universal.htm">Is God merciful to all? (Psalm 145:9 vs. Isaiah 13:9)</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hebrews/3.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) <span class= "bld">So</span>.--Rather, <span class= "ital">as</span> (<a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm" title="For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.">Hebrews 4:3</a>). It is with these as it was with their fathers, the generations that came out of Egypt, unto whom God sware, "They shall not enter into My rest" (<a href="/context/numbers/14-21.htm" title="But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.">Numbers 14:21-24</a>). The form in which these words appear below (<a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm" title="For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.">Hebrews 4:3</a>; <a href="/hebrews/4-5.htm" title="And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.">Hebrews 4:5</a>) in the Authorised version, "If they shall enter into my rest," is an imitation of the original construction. See <a href="/numbers/14-23.htm" title="Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:">Numbers 14:23</a>, where "they shall not see" is. as the margin shows, expressed in Hebrew by "if they (shall) see" the land.<p><span class= "bld">Into my rest.</span>--Into the land where Jehovah shall give rest to His people and shall dwell with them. (See <a href="/deuteronomy/12-9.htm" title="For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you.">Deuteronomy 12:9</a>; <a href="/1_kings/8-56.htm" title="Blessed be the LORD, that 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 the hand of Moses his servant.">1Kings 8:56</a>; <a href="/psalms/132-14.htm" title="This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.">Psalm 132:14</a>; <a href="/isaiah/66-1.htm" title="Thus said the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build to me? and where is the place of my rest?">Isaiah 66:1</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/6-31.htm" title="And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.">1Chronicles 6:31</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/6-41.htm" title="Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.">2Chronicles 6:41</a>.) . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hebrews/3-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">So</span><br /><span class="grk">ὡς</span> <span class="translit">(hōs)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5613.htm">Strong's 5613: </a> </span><span class="str2">Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I swore on oath</span><br /><span class="grk">ὤμοσα</span> <span class="translit">(ōmosa)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3660.htm">Strong's 3660: </a> </span><span class="str2">A prolonged form of a primary, but obsolete omo, for which another prolonged form omoo is used in certain tenses; to swear, i.e. Take oath.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐν</span> <span class="translit">(en)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> </span><span class="str2">In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My</span><br /><span class="grk">μου</span> <span class="translit">(mou)</span><br /><span class="parse">Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1473.htm">Strong's 1473: </a> </span><span class="str2">I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">anger,</span><br /><span class="grk">ὀργῇ</span> <span class="translit">(orgē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3709.htm">Strong's 3709: </a> </span><span class="str2">From oregomai; properly, desire, i.e., violent passion (justifiable) abhorrence); by implication punishment.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">‘They shall never enter</span><br /><span class="grk">εἰσελεύσονται</span> <span class="translit">(eiseleusontai)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1525.htm">Strong's 1525: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go in, come in, enter. From eis and erchomai; to enter.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My</span><br /><span class="grk">μου</span> <span class="translit">(mou)</span><br /><span class="parse">Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1473.htm">Strong's 1473: </a> </span><span class="str2">I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">rest.’”</span><br /><span class="grk">κατάπαυσίν</span> <span class="translit">(katapausin)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2663.htm">Strong's 2663: </a> </span><span class="str2">From katapauo; reposing down, i.e. abode.</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hebrews/3-11.htm">Hebrews 3:11 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hebrews/3-11.htm">NT Letters: Hebrews 3:11 As I swore in my wrath 'They (Heb. 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