Unto whom I sware in my wrath
Being angry with them, he sware for the confirmation of what he
said; the form of the oath was, "as truly as I live"; he sware by
himself, for he could swear by no greater; see ( Numbers
14:21-23 Numbers
14:28-30 Numbers
14:35 )
that they should not enter into my rest;
the land of Canaan, or Israel, as Kimchi; which the Lord
provided, promised, and gave to the Israelites, as their rest;
the land of Israel and Jerusalem, as Jarchi; or the house of the
sanctuary, the temple, as the Targum; which Jehovah chose for his
rest, and took it up in it, and where he promised the Messiah,
the Prince of peace, who gives to his people spiritual and
eternal rest. Canaan was typical of the rest which remains for
the people of God; the use that believing Jews, and all
Christians under the Gospel dispensation, are to make of this,
see in ( Hebrews 3:18
Hebrews
3:19 ) ( Hebrews 4:1 Hebrews
4:9-11 ) .