Hebrews 3:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. ”

• Hebrews 3:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For some - Some of the Hebrews who came out of Egypt. The truth was that a large proportion of them rebelled against God, and provoked him to indignation. It is somewhat remarkable that though “a...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Hebrews 3:1 to Hebrews 4:13 . As Christ is higher than the angels, so He is greater than Moses, through whom the first covenant was established. The comparison with Moses, however, occupies on...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  some . Greek. tines. App-124. when... heard . having heard. provoke . Greek. parapikraino. Only here. Often in the Septuagint out of . Greek. ek . App-104.

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  16 For some, when they had heard, etc. David spoke of the fathers as though that whole generation were unbelieving; but it appears that some who truly feared God mingled with the wicked....

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. For some, when they had heard, did provoke - There is a various reading here, which consists merely in the...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For some, when they had heard, did provoke:— The reasoning is thus: "Do you every day exhort one another to steadfastness in the faith; omit no opportunity of doing so: do not delay, or put it off;...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. For some - rather, interrogatively, 'For WHO was it that, when they had heard (referring to "if ye...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus Christ, Lord of the Household of Gods ( b ) Christ is superior also to Moses; for He is Son over the house of God, whereas Moses was only a servant in it.

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER III. FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS. Hebrews 3:1 - Hebrews 4:13 (R.V.). "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Harden Not Your Hearts” Hebrews 3:12-19 There is a peril lest familiarity with God's words should beget indifference to them. The path may be trodden hard by the sower's feet. That story of th...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The argument now passed to the second claim of superiority, that over all human leaders. He is first seen as superior to Moses and Joshua. He is "the Apostle" completely fulfilling the function repre...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (7) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, (8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: (9) When your fathers tempted m...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For some, when, they had heard ,.... The Arabic version adds, "his voice"; the law on Mount Sinai; the voice of words, with the voices and thunderings that attended it; the book of the covenant read...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. Ver. 16. Howbeit not all ] Yet all fell in the wilderness save Joshua and Caleb. Good men are oft wrap...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For some , &c. As if he had said, You have need to attend; be watchful and circumspect. For some Yea, many; when they had heard The voice of God in giving the law, and the various instructio...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling." Let us keep in mind that this is addressed to Jewish believers. How great a contrast to that which their own religion had taught them! E...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Cautions against Apostasy. A. D.  62.       7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: this is a rational enforcement of the former duty pressed; it being as possible for them to provoke Christ as others, they should look to it, and not har...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 3:7-19 form part of an exhortation, based on the superiority of Christ over Moses, and the conduct of the Jewish people in their relation to Moses. They wer...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Hebrews 3:7-19 Unbelief in the Wilderness. I. The history of the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness is most instructive. No Scripture is of private interpretation, but is Catholic and...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Hebrews 3:1 . Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus: Oh, that he had more consideration at our hands!...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hebrews 3:1 . Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, who, as the sons of God, are called to eternal glory, consider the Apostle and Highpriest of our profession, that he un...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Borne, when they had heard, did provoke Some but not all bad I. MANY HEAR THE WORD OR VOICE OF GOD TO NO ADVANTAGE, BUT ONLY TO AGGRAVATE THEIR SIN. Their hearing renders their sin provoking un...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE SON SUPERIOR TO MOSES . Here begins the second section of the argument of the first four chapters (see summary given under Hebrews 1:5 ). But though a new branch of the...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The danger of unbelief:

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 1:36 ; Deuteronomy 1:38 ; Hebrews 3:10 ; Hebrews 3:9 ; Joshua 14:7-11 ; Numbers 14:2 ; Numbers 14:24 ; Numbers 14:30 ; Numbers 14:38 ; Numbers 14:4 ; Numbers 26:65 ; Psalms 78...

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• Hebrews 3:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Were they not all that came out of Egypt — An awful consideration! The whole elect people of God (a very few excepted) provoked God presently after their great deliverance, continued to grieve his...

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