Hebrews 3:16

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Hebrews 3:16

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

Some

Not

General references

Psalm 78:17

John 9:18

Bible References

Some

"There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

And all the Israelites murmured 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 perished in this wilderness!

For the Lord had said of them, "They will surely die in the wilderness." And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One in the desert.

Not

Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully -- I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.

The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh; he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me."

I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord's servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report.

But what was the divine response to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

General references

Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One in the desert.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.