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Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? <a href="/nlt/hebrews/3.htm">New Living Translation</a> And who was it who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Wasn’t it the people Moses led out of Egypt? <a href="/esv/hebrews/3.htm">English Standard Version</a> For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? <a href="/bsb/hebrews/3.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? <a href="/blb/hebrews/3.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For who were those having heard, rebelled, but not all those having come out of Egypt by the leading of Moses? <a href="/kjv/hebrews/3.htm">King James Bible</a> For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. <a href="/nkjv/hebrews/3.htm">New King James Version</a> For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? <a href="/nasb_/hebrews/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? <a href="/nasb/hebrews/3.htm">NASB 1995</a> For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? <a href="/nasb77/hebrews/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? <a href="/lsb/hebrews/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? <a href="/amp/hebrews/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a> For who were they who heard and yet provoked Him [with rebellious acts]? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? <a href="/csb/hebrews/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses? <a href="/hcsb/hebrews/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> For who heard and rebelled? Wasn&#8217t it really all who came out of Egypt under Moses? <a href="/asv/hebrews/3.htm">American Standard Version</a> For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses? <a href="/cev/hebrews/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Who were those people that heard God's voice and rebelled? Weren't they the same ones that came out of Egypt with Moses? <a href="/erv/hebrews/3.htm">English Revised Version</a> For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses? <a href="/gwt/hebrews/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Who heard God and rebelled? All those whom Moses led out of Egypt rebelled. <a href="/gnt/hebrews/3.htm">Good News Translation</a> Who were the people who heard God's voice and rebelled against him? All those who were led out of Egypt by Moses. <a href="/isv/hebrews/3.htm">International Standard Version</a> Now who heard him and provoked him? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? <a href="/msb/hebrews/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For some heard and rebelled, but not all those Moses led out of Egypt. <a href="/net/hebrews/3.htm">NET Bible</a> For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses' leadership? <a href="/nheb/hebrews/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, did not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses? <a href="/wbt/hebrews/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> For some, when they had heard, did provoke: yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. <a href="/wey/hebrews/3.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For who were they that heard, and yet provoked God? Was it not the whole of the people who had come out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses? <a href="/web/hebrews/3.htm">World English Bible</a> For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hebrews/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> For who [were those], having heard, [that] provoked, but not all those having come out of Egypt through Moses? <a href="/blb/hebrews/3.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For who were those having heard, rebelled, but not all those having come out of Egypt by the leading of Moses? <a href="/ylt/hebrews/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses; <a href="/slt/hebrews/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For some, having heard, did exasperate: but not all they having come out of Egypt by Moses.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hebrews/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. <a href="/cpdv/hebrews/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For some of those listening did provoke him. But not all of these had set forth from Egypt through Moses. <a href="/nabre/hebrews/3.htm">New American Bible</a> Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses? <a href="/nrsvce/hebrews/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hebrews/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Who are those who have heard and provoked him? Were they not those who came out of Egypt under Moses, although not all of them? <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/hebrews/3.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> For who were those who heard and angered him? Was it not all of these who went out from Egypt by Moses?<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/hebrews/3.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> For some, when they had heard, did bitterly provoke; yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. <a href="/godbey/hebrews/3.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> for who were those, having heard, who were hardened? yea, were they not all those having come out of Egypt under Moses? <a href="/haweis/hebrews/3.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> For some, though they had heard, provoked him; yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses. <a href="/mace/hebrews/3.htm">Mace New Testament</a> for some when they had heard his voice, did provoke him: however, not all that were brought out of Egypt by Moses did so. <a href="/wey/hebrews/3.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For who were they that heard, and yet provoked God? Was it not the whole of the people who had come out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses? <a href="/worrell/hebrews/3.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> For who, after having heard, did provoke? nay, did not all who came out of Egypt through Moses? <a href="/worsley/hebrews/3.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> harden not your hearts, as in the provocation." For some that heard did provoke; but not all that came out of Egypt with Moses. <a href="/parallel/hebrews/3-16.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x-IAXXp5zcA?start=450" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hebrews/3.htm">The Peril of Unbelief</a> …15As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.” 16<a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">For</a> <a href="/greek/5101.htm" title="5101: Tines (IPro-NMP) -- Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.">who were the ones who</a> <a href="/greek/191.htm" title="191: akousantes (V-APA-NMP) -- To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.">heard</a> <a href="/greek/3893.htm" title="3893: parepikranan (V-AIA-3P) -- To embitter, provoke, irritate. From para and pikraino; to embitter alongside, i.e. to exasperate.">and rebelled?</a> <a href="/greek/235.htm" title="235: all’ (Conj) -- But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise."></a> <a href="/greek/3756.htm" title="3756: ou (Adv) -- No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.">Were they not</a> <a href="/greek/3956.htm" title="3956: pantes (Adj-NMP) -- All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.">all</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: hoi (Art-NMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">those</a> <a href="/greek/3475.htm" title="3475: Mōuseōs (N-GMS) -- Or Moses, or Mouses of Hebrew origin; Moseus, Moses, or Mouses, the Hebrew lawgiver.">Moses</a> <a href="/greek/1223.htm" title="1223: dia (Prep) -- A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.">led</a> <a href="/greek/1831.htm" title="1831: exelthontes (V-APA-NMP) -- To go out, come out. From ek and erchomai; to issue."></a> <a href="/greek/1537.htm" title="1537: ex (Prep) -- From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.">out of</a> <a href="/greek/125.htm" title="125: Aigyptou (N-GFS) -- Egypt. Of uncertain derivation.">Egypt?</a> 17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/numbers/14-2.htm">Numbers 14:2-4</a> All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! / Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” / So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.” <a href="/numbers/14-22.htm">Numbers 14:22-23</a> 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. <a href="/numbers/14-29.htm">Numbers 14:29-30</a> 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. <a href="/numbers/14-35.htm">Numbers 14:35</a> I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.” <a href="/numbers/14-11.htm">Numbers 14:11</a> And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them? <a href="/numbers/14-9.htm">Numbers 14:9</a> Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!” <a href="/numbers/14-27.htm">Numbers 14:27</a> “How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me. <a href="/numbers/14-36.htm">Numbers 14:36-37</a> So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land— / those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD. <a href="/numbers/14-11.htm">Numbers 14:11-12</a> And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them? / I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.” <a href="/numbers/14-20.htm">Numbers 14:20-21</a> “I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied. / “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD, <a href="/numbers/14-28.htm">Numbers 14:28</a> So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. <a href="/numbers/14-32.htm">Numbers 14:32-33</a> As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness. / Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. <a href="/numbers/14-39.htm">Numbers 14:39-45</a> And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly. / Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.” / But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed! ... <a href="/psalms/95-8.htm">Psalm 95:8-11</a> do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work. / For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.” ... <a href="/exodus/17-1.htm">Exodus 17:1-7</a> Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. / So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?” / But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?” ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>For some, when they had heard, did provoke: however, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.some.<a href="/hebrews/3-9.htm">Hebrews 3:9,10</a> When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years… <a href="/numbers/14-2.htm">Numbers 14:2,4</a> And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! … <a href="/numbers/26-65.htm">Numbers 26:65</a> For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.not.<a href="/numbers/14-24.htm">Numbers 14:24,30,38</a> But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it… <a href="/deuteronomy/1-36.htm">Deuteronomy 1:36,38</a> Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD… <a href="/joshua/14-7.htm">Joshua 14:7-11</a> Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hebrews/3-15.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/acts/13-17.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/hebrews/2-3.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-16.htm">Howbeit</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-14.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/psalms/109-8.htm">Leadership</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-5.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/colossians/3-21.htm">Provoke</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-15.htm">Provoked</a> <a href="/zephaniah/3-11.htm">Rebelled</a> <a href="/titus/1-10.htm">Rebellious</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-15.htm">Voice</a> <a href="/hebrews/2-15.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hebrews/3-17.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/hebrews/8-9.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-2.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/james/2-8.htm">Howbeit</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-2.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/numbers/33-1.htm">Leadership</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-14.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-24.htm">Provoke</a> <a href="/hebrews/3-17.htm">Provoked</a> <a href="/genesis/14-4.htm">Rebelled</a> <a href="/exodus/23-21.htm">Rebellious</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-7.htm">Voice</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-6.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Hebrews 3</div>1. <a href="/hebrews/3-1.htm">Christ is more worthy than Moses;</a> 7. <a href="/hebrews/3-7.htm">therefore if we believe not in him, we shall be more worthy punishment than hardhearted Israel.</a> </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>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <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> </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>For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? This phrase refers to the Israelites during the Exodus. They heard God's commands and promises through Moses but chose to rebel. This rebellion is documented in several instances, such as the golden calf incident (Exodus 32) and the refusal to enter the Promised Land due to fear (Numbers 13-14). The rhetorical question emphasizes the accountability of those who have received divine revelation yet choose disobedience. It serves as a warning to believers to heed God's voice and remain faithful.Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? This phrase highlights the collective nature of the rebellion. All the Israelites who experienced the miraculous deliverance from Egypt, including the plagues and the parting of the Red Sea, were involved. Moses, as a type of Christ, was their leader and mediator, yet the people still faltered. This underscores the theme of unbelief despite witnessing God's power. The historical context of the Exodus is crucial, as it was a foundational event for Israel, symbolizing salvation and covenant relationship with God. The reference serves as a cautionary tale for the audience of Hebrews, urging them to remain steadfast in their faith and not repeat the mistakes of their ancestors.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a> A central figure in the Old Testament, Moses was chosen by God to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage. He is a type of Christ in the sense that he was a deliverer and mediator of God's covenant. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a> The people of God who were delivered from slavery in Egypt. Despite witnessing God's miracles, they often rebelled against Him during their journey to the Promised Land. 3. <a href="/topical/e/egypt.htm">Egypt</a> The land of bondage from which the Israelites were delivered. It symbolizes sin and the world from which believers are called to separate themselves. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_exodus.htm">The Exodus</a> The event of the Israelites' departure from Egypt, led by Moses. It is a foundational account of deliverance and faith in God's promises. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness.htm">The Wilderness</a> The place where the Israelites wandered for 40 years due to their unbelief and rebellion. It represents the trials and testing of faith.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_unbelief.htm">The Danger of Unbelief</a> Just as the Israelites heard God's voice yet rebelled, believers today must guard against unbelief. Faith is not just hearing but also trusting and obeying God's Word. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_remembering_god's_works.htm">The Importance of Remembering God's Works</a> The Israelites forgot God's mighty acts of deliverance. Believers should regularly recall and give thanks for God's past faithfulness to strengthen their faith. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_rebellion.htm">The Consequences of Rebellion</a> The Israelites' rebellion led to severe consequences, including missing out on the Promised Land. Disobedience to God can lead to missed blessings and opportunities. <a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_persevere.htm">The Call to Persevere</a> The Christian journey is likened to the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land. Believers are called to persevere in faith, trusting in God's promises despite trials. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_spiritual_leaders.htm">The Role of Spiritual Leaders</a> Moses was a faithful leader, yet the people still rebelled. Spiritual leaders today must remain faithful, but they also need the support and cooperation of those they lead.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hebrews_3.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hebrews 3</a> <a href="/q/who_were_the_old_testament_elders.htm">Who were the elders in the Old Testament?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_'god_is_truth'_mean.htm">Who was Moses' father-in-law?</a> <a href="/q/is_there_evidence_for_deut._1_34-39's_judgment.htm">Deuteronomy 1:34–39 implies a direct divine punishment for an entire generation; is there any contextual or historical corroboration for such a widespread judgment?</a> <a href="/q/is_the_law_of_moses_useful_or_not.htm">Is the law of Moses useful? Yes. All scripture is... profitable... (2 Timothy 3:16) No. . . . A former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness... (Hebrews 7:18)</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>(16) For.--The connecting link is the thought of "the provocation." A slight change in the accentuation of the first Greek word effects a complete change in the sense: For who when they had heard did provoke? Nay, was it not all that came out of Egypt through Moses? Those who were disobedient were the people whom God, through Moses, had but now delivered from bondage! The two exceptions (<a href="/numbers/14-30.htm" title="Doubtless you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.">Numbers 14:30</a>) are left out of account in the presence of the multitude of rebels. There can be little doubt that the above translation (now generally received) presents the true meaning of the verse. It will be remembered that the oldest MSS. give no evidence on such points as accentuation, and therefore leave our judgment free. In modern times Bengel was the first to point out the true form of the Greek word; but one of the ancient versions (the Peschito-Syriac), and at least three of the Greek Fathers, are found to give the same interpretation. It will be seen at once that, with this arrangement of the words, the present verse is similar in structure to the two following.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hebrews/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 16-19. - For who, when they heard, provoked? Nay, did not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses. That both these clauses are interrogative, and not as taken in the A.V., is now the prevalent view. The reasons for thus understanding them are (1) the analogy of the two following verses, both of which are interrogative, and in the first of which a question is similarly answered by putting another; and (2) the sense required. If the clauses were assertions, they could only be meant to express that the provocation was not universal, inasmuch as Joshua and Caleb (and it might be some few others) remained faithful. But to say this is unnecessary and irrelevant to the argument, the drift of which is to warn by "the example of unbelief;" and could τινὲς ("some") possibly be used to denote the whole congregation with the exception of so few? It is to be observed, too, that the ἀλλ οὐ at the beginning of the second clause is a proper Greek expression (equivalent to "nay") in the case of one question being answered by another (cf. <a href="/luke/17-7.htm">Luke 17:7, 8</a>). This verse, then (γὰρ retaining its usual sense of "for"), begins a proof, put in the form of a series of questions, of the preceding implied proposition, viz. that the retention of Christian privilege is dependent on perseverance, and that the privilege may be forfeited. In order to show this fully, the history of <a href="/numbers/14.htm">Numbers 14</a>, referred to in the warning of the psalm, is examined in connection with the successive expressions of the warning; and it thus appears that all who came out of Egypt by Moses (the small exception of the faithful spies being disregarded) provoked God, and so forfeited their privilege, and that the cause of their failure was sin, disobedience, and, at the root of all, unbelief. The conclusion is obvious that, as their example is held out in the psalm as a warning to us, we may, all or any of us, similarly forfeit our higher calling. That the psalm is a warning to us, the rest it points to being the rest won for us by Christ, is more fully shown in the following chapter. We observe how the leading words in <a href="/psalms/95.htm">Psalm 95</a>. are taken in succession in the three successive verses - παραπικρασμός in ver. 16, προσώχθισα in ver. 17, ὤμοσα in ver. 18 - and how answers to the three questions suggested by these words are found in <a href="/numbers/14.htm">Numbers 14</a>. - to the first, in vers. 2, 10, etc., "all the children of Israel," "all the congregation;" to the second, in vers. 29-34, with citation of the words used; to the third, in vers. 21-24. It is to be observed, further, that it is not simply ἀπιστία, but its exhibition in actual sin and disobedience (τοῖς ἀμαρτήσασι τοῖς ἀπειθήσασι), that is spoken of as calling forth the Divine wrath and the Divine oath. The second of the above words implies more titan "believed not" (as in the A.V.); ἀπειθεῖν differs from ἀπιστεῖν in implying disobedience or contumacy. And this view of the case of the Israelites agrees entirely with the historical record, where an actual rebellion is spoken of a refusal to go on with the work they had been called to. It suits also the application to the case of the Hebrew Christians, among whom (as has been said) it was not only wavering of faith, but, as its consequence, remissness in moral duty and in the facing of trial, of which the writer of the Epistle had perceived symptoms, and on the ground of which he warns them to take heed lest growing indifference should be hardened into apostasy. But in both instances, as faith is the root of all virtue, so want of it was the cause, and again the growing result, of moral decadence. And so the argument is summed up in the concluding verse, And we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. . . . <a href="/commentaries/hebrews/3-16.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>For γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. who were the ones who Τίνες (Tines) Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5101.htm">Strong's 5101: </a> Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what. heard ἀκούσαντες (akousantes) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_191.htm">Strong's 191: </a> To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear. [and] rebelled? παρεπίκραναν (parepikranan) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3893.htm">Strong's 3893: </a> To embitter, provoke, irritate. From para and pikraino; to embitter alongside, i.e. to exasperate. [Were they] not οὐ (ou) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_3756.htm">Strong's 3756: </a> No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not. all πάντες (pantes) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3956.htm">Strong's 3956: </a> All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. those οἱ (hoi) Article - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. Moses Μωϋσέως (Mōuseōs) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3475.htm">Strong's 3475: </a> Or Moses, or Mouses of Hebrew origin; Moseus, Moses, or Mouses, the Hebrew lawgiver. led διὰ (dia) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1223.htm">Strong's 1223: </a> A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through. out of ἐξ (ex) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1537.htm">Strong's 1537: </a> From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. Egypt? Αἰγύπτου (Aigyptou) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_125.htm">Strong's 125: </a> Egypt. 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