“Do not harden your hearts, as in the [a]rebellion,
(A)As in the day of [b]trial in the wilderness,

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  1. Psalm 95:8 Or Meribah, lit. Strife, Contention
  2. Psalm 95:8 Or Massah, lit. Trial, Testing

“Do not harden your hearts(A) as you did at Meribah,[a](B)
    as you did that day at Massah[b] in the wilderness,(C)

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  1. Psalm 95:8 Meribah means quarreling.
  2. Psalm 95:8 Massah means testing.

So he called the name of the place (A)Massah[a] and [b]Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they [c]tempted the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

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  1. Exodus 17:7 Lit. Tempted
  2. Exodus 17:7 Lit. Contention
  3. Exodus 17:7 tested

And he called the place Massah[a](A) and Meribah[b](B) because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

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  1. Exodus 17:7 Massah means testing.
  2. Exodus 17:7 Meribah means quarreling.

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.

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    do not harden your hearts(A)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(B)

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13 (A)This was the water of [a]Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord, and He was hallowed among them.

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  1. Numbers 20:13 Lit. Contention

13 These were the waters of Meribah,[a](A) where the Israelites quarreled(B) with the Lord and where he was proved holy among them.(C)

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  1. Numbers 20:13 Meribah means quarreling.

22 (A)because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now (B)these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,

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22 not one of those who saw my glory and the signs(A) I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times(B)

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Moses Intercedes for the People

11 Then the Lord said to Moses: “How long will these people (A)reject[a] Me? And how long will they not (B)believe Me, with all the [b]signs which I have performed among them?

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  1. Numbers 14:11 despise
  2. Numbers 14:11 miraculous signs

11 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt?(A) How long will they refuse to believe in me,(B) in spite of all the signs(C) I have performed among them?

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15 while it is said:

(A)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

16 (B)For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, (C)whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And (D)to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of (E)unbelief.

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15 As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”[a](A)

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?(B) 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?(C) 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest(D) if not to those who disobeyed?(E) 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.(F)

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  1. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8

Why then do you harden your hearts (A)as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He did mighty things among them, (B)did they not let the people go, that they might depart?

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Why do you harden(A) your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When Israel’s god dealt harshly with them,(B) did they(C) not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?

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16 (A)“You shall not [a]tempt the Lord your God (B)as you [b]tempted Him in Massah.

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  1. Deuteronomy 6:16 test
  2. Deuteronomy 6:16 tested

16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test(A) as you did at Massah.

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Hear the Heavenly Voice

25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For (A)if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven,

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25 See to it that you do not refuse(A) him who speaks.(B) If they did not escape when they refused him who warned(C) them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?(D)

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But in accordance with your hardness and your [a]impenitent heart (A)you are [b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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  1. Romans 2:5 unrepentant
  2. Romans 2:5 storing

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath(A), when his righteous judgment(B) will be revealed.

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Old and New Apostates

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that (A)the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

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Though you already know all this,(A) I want to remind you(B) that the Lord[a] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.(C)

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  1. Jude 1:5 Some early manuscripts Jesus

13 but [a]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

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  1. Hebrews 3:13 encourage

13 But encourage one another daily,(A) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(B)

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