So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Parallel translations
- WEB as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
- BSB So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
- NKJV So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
- NASB As I swore in My anger, ‘They certainly shall not enter My rest.’ ”
- NLT So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
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Quick answer
God swore in His anger that the unbelieving generation would not enter His rest. Their rebellion barred them from the promised rest.
Overview
The solemn oath of Psalm 95 declares that the wilderness generation forfeited entry into the 'rest,' originally the land of Canaan. The author will develop 'rest' into a rich theme pointing beyond the land to God's ultimate rest. This first mention warns that unbelief can permanently exclude a person from the promised blessing.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 1:34–35And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
- Heb 4:3For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Num 32:10–13And the LORD’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
- Num 14:20–23And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
- Num 14:35I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
- Deut 2:14And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
- Heb 4:5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
- Num 14:27–30How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
- Heb 4:9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
- Ps 95:11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
- Num 14:25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
- Heb 3:18–19And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
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