Hebrews 3:16

Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

But what was the divine response? 'I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have never bowed the knee to Baal.'

Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, And saw my mighty deeds for forty years.

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

Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, And saw my mighty deeds for forty years.

But what was the divine response? 'I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have never bowed the knee to Baal.'

The Jews, however, refused to believe that he had been blind and had gained his sight, until they had called his parents and questioned them.