For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
Parallel translations
- WEB for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
- KJV For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
- NKJV for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.
- NASB for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.
- NLT because you have not yet arrived at the place of rest, the land the Lord your God is giving you as your special possession.
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Quick answer
They had not yet reached the rest and inheritance God was giving, so settled worship lay ahead. The promise of rest motivates obedience.
Overview
Moses explains that the wilderness arrangements were temporary because Israel had not yet entered the land of rest and inheritance. The land represented God's promised gift and a foretaste of peace. The New Testament takes up this theme of rest, showing that the true and lasting rest is found in Christ, who gives rest to all who come to him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 1 Kgs 8:56“Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses.
- Deut 25:19When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
- Ps 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Heb 4:8–9For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
- Mic 2:10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!
- 1 Pet 1:3–4Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Chr 23:25For David had said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to His people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem forever.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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