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Hebrews 3:8–9

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Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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From verse 8

  1. Proverbs 28:14Rank 1 from verse 8
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    14Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

  2. Exodus 17:7Rank 2 from verse 8
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    7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

  3. Matthew 13:15Rank 3 from verse 8
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    15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

  4. Zechariah 7:11–12Rank 4 from verse 8
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    11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

    12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

  5. Daniel 5:20Rank 5 from verse 8
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    20But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

  6. Ezekiel 3:7–9Rank 6 from verse 8
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    7But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

    8Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

    9As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

  7. Jeremiah 7:26Rank 7 from verse 8
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    26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

  8. Psalms 78:18Rank 8 from verse 8
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    18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

  9. Psalms 78:56Rank 9 from verse 8
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    56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

  10. Exodus 8:15Rank 10 from verse 8
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    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.

  11. Hebrews 3:12–13Rank 11 from verse 8
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    12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

    13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

  12. Job 9:4Rank 12 from verse 8
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    4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

  13. Proverbs 29:1Rank 13 from verse 8
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    1HE, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  14. 2 Chronicles 36:13Rank 14 from verse 8
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    13And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.

  15. Deuteronomy 6:16Rank 15 from verse 8
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    16¶ Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

  16. Deuteronomy 9:22–24Rank 16 from verse 8
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    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

    23Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

    24Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

  17. Psalms 106:14Rank 17 from verse 8
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    14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

  18. 1 Corinthians 10:9Rank 18 from verse 8
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    9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

  19. 1 Samuel 6:6Rank 19 from verse 8
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    6Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

  20. Acts 19:9Rank 20 from verse 8
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    9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

  21. Nehemiah 9:16Rank 21 from verse 8
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    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

  22. Numbers 14:11Rank 22 from verse 8
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    11¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

  23. Romans 2:5–6Rank 23 from verse 8
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    5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

    6Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

  24. 2 Chronicles 30:8Rank 24 from verse 8
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    8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

  25. 2 Kings 17:14Rank 25 from verse 8
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    14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.

  26. Numbers 14:22–23Rank 26 from verse 8
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    22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

    23Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

From verse 9

  1. Acts 7:36Rank 1 from verse 9
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    36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

  2. Deuteronomy 4:9Rank 2 from verse 9
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    9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

  3. Deuteronomy 4:3Rank 3 from verse 9
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    3Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

  4. Deuteronomy 8:4Rank 4 from verse 9
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    4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

  5. Exodus 19:4Rank 5 from verse 9
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    4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.

  6. Acts 13:8Rank 6 from verse 9
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    8But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

  7. Amos 2:10Rank 7 from verse 9
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    10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

  8. Deuteronomy 29:2Rank 8 from verse 9
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    2¶ And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

  9. Deuteronomy 8:2Rank 9 from verse 9
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    2And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

  10. Exodus 20:22Rank 10 from verse 9
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    22¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

  11. Joshua 23:3Rank 11 from verse 9
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    3And ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the Lord your God is he that hath fought for you.

  12. Joshua 24:7Rank 12 from verse 9
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    7And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

  13. Luke 7:22Rank 13 from verse 9
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    22Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

  14. Numbers 14:33Rank 14 from verse 9
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    33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

  15. Deuteronomy 11:7Rank 15 from verse 9
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    7But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.

  16. Joshua 5:6Rank 16 from verse 9
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    6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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Hebrews 3:8

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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hearts

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The inward lives of persons: their thoughts, understanding, conscience, affections, desires, purposes, will, courage, or disposition.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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wilderness

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Uncultivated, desolate, sparsely inhabited, or uninhabited land; a desert, wild country, or solitary region.

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Hebrews 3:9

COMBINED MEANING

your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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tempted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of tempt. Sense 1: To try, test, put to the test. Sense 2: To entice toward evil.

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proved

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of prove, meaning to test, try, examine, or establish as true by evidence.

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works

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Plural of work: acts, deeds, labours, operations, products, or things made.

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3:1WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

3:2Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

3:3For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

3:4For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

3:5And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

3:6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

3:7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

3:8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

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3:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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3:10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

3:11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

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