Hebrews 3:8

The warning continues: do not harden your hearts as Israel did in their rebellion in the wilderness. Past unbelief is held up as a sobering example.

Cross-references · 26

• Prov 28:14Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
• Exod 17:7He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
• Zech 7:11–12But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
• Matt 13:15for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’
• Dan 5:20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
• Ezek 3:7–9But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.
• Ps 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;
• Jer 7:26yet they didn’t listen to me, nor did they incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
• Ps 78:18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
• Heb 3:12–13Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
• Exod 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
• Job 9:4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
• Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
• Deut 9:22–24At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
• Deut 6:16You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
• 2 Chr 36:13He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
• Ps 106:14but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
• 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
• 1 Sam 6:6Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?
• Num 14:11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
• Rom 2:5–6But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
• Neh 9:16“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
• Acts 19:9But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
• 2 Kgs 17:14Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.
• Num 14:22–23because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
• 2 Chr 30:8Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

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