God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
Parallel translations
- WEB he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”
- KJV Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
- NKJV again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”
- NASB He again sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”
- NLT So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”
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Quick answer
Long after the wilderness, God again set a day, 'today,' speaking through David, showing the rest was still future. The continued offer of 'today' proves the rest remained unentered.
Overview
By citing Psalm 95, written through David long after the conquest of Canaan, the author shows that the rest could not have been fully realized in the land. God's renewed 'today' signals an ongoing invitation. This argument demonstrates that the promised rest points beyond earthly Canaan to something greater.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 95:7For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
- Heb 3:7–8Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
- Heb 3:15As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
- 2 Sam 23:1–2These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
- Matt 22:43Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? For he says:
- Acts 28:25They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
- 1 Kgs 6:1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.
- Mark 12:36Speaking by the Holy Spirit, David himself declared: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
- Acts 2:31Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
- Luke 20:42For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand
- Acts 2:29Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- Acts 13:20–23All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
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