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Douay-Rheims Bible

Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anthropomorphisms;   Backsliders;   Grief;   Procrastination;   Reprobacy;   Unbelief;   Thompson Chain Reference - Misused Privileges;   Privileges;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Exodus;   Israel;   Type, typology;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Endurance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hebrews;   Perseverance;   Security of the Believer;   Wilderness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Desert, Wilderness;   Gentiles;   Grief ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mo'ses;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Grief;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
King James Version (1611)
But with whom was he grieued fourty yeeres? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wildernesse?
King James Version
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
English Standard Version
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
New American Standard Bible
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
New Century Version
And with whom was God angry for forty years? He was angry with those who sinned, who died in the desert.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Legacy Standard Bible
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
Berean Standard Bible
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Contemporary English Version
Who were the people that made God angry for forty years? Weren't they the ones that sinned and died in the desert?
Complete Jewish Bible
And with whom was God disgusted for forty years ? Those who sinned — yes, they fell dead in the Wilderness !
Darby Translation
And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Easy-to-Read Version
And who was God angry with for 40 years? He was angry with those who sinned. And their dead bodies were left in the desert.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But with whome was he displeased fourtie yeeres? Was hee not displeased with them that sinned, whose carkeises fell in the wildernes?
George Lamsa Translation
But with whom was he displeased for forty years? Was it not especially with those who had sinned and whose bones lay in the wilderness?
Good News Translation
With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert.
Lexham English Bible
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
Literal Translation
But with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with the ones sinning, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
Amplified Bible
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies were scattered in the desert?
American Standard Version
And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Bible in Basic English
And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?
Hebrew Names Version
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
International Standard Version
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell in the wilderness?Numbers 14:22,29; 26:65; Psalm 106:26; 1 Corinthians 10:5; Jude 1:5;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And with whom was he wearied forty years, but with them who sinned, and whose bones fell in the desert?
Murdock Translation
And with whom was he disgusted forty years, but with those who sinned, and whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But with whom was he displeased fourtie yeres? Not with them that had sinned, whose carkases fell in the desert?
English Revised Version
And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
World English Bible
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Were they not all that came out of Egypt by Moses? And with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them who had sinned?
Weymouth's New Testament
And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But to whiche was he wraththid fourti yeeris? Whether not to hem that synneden, whos careyns weren cast doun in desert?
Update Bible Version
And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with those that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Webster's Bible Translation
But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
New English Translation
And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
New King James Version
Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
New Living Translation
And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn't it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness?
New Life Bible
Who made God angry for forty years? Was it not those people who had sinned in the desert? Was it not those who died and were buried there?
New Revised Standard
But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, with whom, was be sore vexed forty years? Was it not with them who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the desert?
Revised Standard Version
And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But with who was he despleased .xl. yeares? Was he not displeased with them that synned: whose carkases were overthorwen in the desert?
Young's Literal Translation
but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But with whom was he displeased fortye yeares longe? Was he not displeased with them yt synned, whose carcases were ouerthrowne in ye wyldernesse?
Mace New Testament (1729)
but with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the desert?
Simplified Cowboy Version
And wasn't it them who made God mad those forty years in the wilderness? It was these sinners whose bodies still lay in the desert.

Contextual Overview

7 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert, 9 Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works, 10 Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways. 11 As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest. 12 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end. 15 While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation. 16 For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with him, Hebrews 3:10

was it: Numbers 26:64, Numbers 26:65, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13

whose: Numbers 14:22, Numbers 14:29, Numbers 14:32, Numbers 14:33, Deuteronomy 2:15, Deuteronomy 2:16, Jeremiah 9:22, Jude 1:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:6 - grieved Numbers 14:23 - Surely they shall not see Numbers 14:28 - As truly Numbers 14:37 - died Joshua 5:4 - All the Joshua 24:7 - ye dwelt 2 Kings 7:2 - thou shalt see it Psalms 90:7 - For we Psalms 95:10 - Forty Mark 3:5 - grieved John 6:49 - and are 1 Corinthians 10:5 - General Ephesians 4:30 - grieve Hebrews 12:25 - if they

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.
Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.
Genesis 3:6
And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:9
And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?
Genesis 3:11
And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But with whom was he grieved forty years?.... As is said in Psalms 95:10,

Psalms 95:10- :,

was it not with them that had sinned; not merely by committing personal iniquities, and particular provocations, which all men are guilty of, but by committing public sins; they sinned as a body of men; they joined together in the commission of sin; every sin is grieving to God, because it is contrary to his nature, is an act of enmity to him, is a transgression of his righteous law, and a contempt of his authority; but especially public sins, or the sins of a multitude, and when they are persisted in, which was the case of the Israelites; they sinned against him during the forty years they were in the wilderness; and so long was he grieved with them: the Alexandrian copy reads, "with them that believed not"; which points out the particular sin these men were guilty of, and which was so grieving to God, and suits well with the apostle's design:

whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? and so never entered into the land of Canaan. They died in the wilderness; and they did not die common and natural deaths, at least not all of them; their deaths were by way of punishment; in a way of wrath; in a judicial way: the Syriac version renders it, "their bones fell in the wilderness"; they lay scattered and unburied, and exposed to view, as an example of divine vengeance, see Numbers 14:29.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But with whom was he grieved forty years? - With whom was he angry; see the notes at Hebrews 3:10.

Was it not with them that had sinned - That had sinned in various ways - by rebellion, murmuring, unbelief. As God was angry with them for their sins, we have the same reason to apprehend that he will be angry with us if we sin; and we should, therefore, be on our guard against that unbelief which would lead us to depart from him; Hebrews 3:12.

Whose carcasses fell ... - Numbers 14:29. That is, they all died, and were left on the sands of the desert. The whole generation was strewed along in the way to Canaan. All of those who had seen the wonders that God had done “in the land of Ham;” who had been rescued in so remarkable a manner from oppression, were thus cut down, and died in the deserts through which they were passing; Numbers 26:64-65. Such an example of the effects of revolt against God, and of unbelief, was well suited to admonish Christians in the time of the apostle, and is suited to admonish us now, of the danger of the sin of unbelief. We are not to suppose that all of those who thus died were excluded from heaven. Moses and Aaron were among the number of those who were not permitted to enter the promised land, but of their piety there can be no doubt; Beyond all question, also, there were many others of that generation who were truly pious. But at different times they seem all to have partaken of the prevalent feelings of discontent, and were all involved in the sweeping condemnation that they should die in the wilderness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. But with whom was he grieved forty years? — I believe it was Surenhusius who first observed that "the apostle, in using the term forty years, elegantly alludes to the space of time which had elapsed since the ascension of our Lord till the time in which this epistle was written, which was about forty years." But this does not exactly agree with what appears to be the exact date of this epistle. However, God had now been a long time provoked by that race rejecting the manifested Messiah, as he was by the conduct of their forefathers in the wilderness; and as that provocation was punished by a very signal judgment, so they might expect this to be punished also. The analogy was perfect in the crimes, and it might reasonably be expected to be so in the punishment. And was not the destruction of Jerusalem a proof of the heinous nature of their crimes, and of the justice of God's outpoured wrath?

Whose carcasses fell — ων τα κωλα επεσεν. Whose members fell; for τακωλα properly signifies the members of the body, and here may be an allusion to the scattered, bleached bones of this people, that were a long time apparent in the wilderness, continuing there as a proof of their crimes, and of the judgments of God.


 
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