Hebrews 3:11

11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”^[a]

Hebrews 3:11 in Other Translations

11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

11 As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'"

11 So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”

11 Exasperated, I vowed, "They'll never get where they're going, never be able to sit down and rest."

11 As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

11 So I angrily took a solemn oath that they would never enter my place of rest."

11 So I swore in My anger, "They will not enter My rest."

11 So in my anger I took an oath. I said, 'They will never enjoy the rest I planned for them.' " (Psalm 95:7-11)

Hebrews 3:11 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 3:11

So I sware in my wrath
Swearing is ascribed to God, to show the certainty of the thing spoken of; as of mercies, when he swears in love, and by his holiness; so here, of punishment, when he swears in wrath, in indignation, in sore displeasure, and the threatened evil is irrevocable and inevitable:

they shall not enter into my rest;
into the land of Canaan, called God's rest, because he promised it, and gave it to the Israelites as their rest; and where he himself had a place of rest; and where he gave the Messiah, the author of peace and rest; and which was a type of heaven, that rest from toil and labour, which remains for the people of God; and into which it is said this generation did not enter; for the Jews say ^F6,

``the generation of the wilderness have no part in the world to come:''

but this seems too harsh, for doubtless there were many who died in the wilderness, that went safe to heaven, notwithstanding all their sins and provocations.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Tzeror Hammor, fol. 118. 1.

Hebrews 3:11 In-Context

9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did.

10 That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’

11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”

12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 1:34,35
• 2. Hebrews 4:3,5
• 3. Psalms 95:7-11

Footnotes

• [a]. Psalm 95:7-11