Bible Strands
Hebrews 3:11
So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through the author to the Hebrew Christian community, delivering judgment immediately after describing the wilderness generation's persistent heart-estrangement in Hebrews 3:10.
The words — ὤμοσα (ōmosa) = I swore; εἰσελεύσονται (eiseleusontai) = will they enter. The text records a divine oath of exclusion tied to wrath.
The thread — This oath echoes Deuteronomy 1:34 where God swears in anger after hearing the people's words, and is quoted in Hebrews 4:3 to contrast those who believe with those excluded from rest.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to examine their own faith against the warning in Hebrews 3:12 that unbelief turns one away from the living God.
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The Greek words
King James Version
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 1:34 When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
- Hebrews 4:3 Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
- Numbers 14:20 “I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
- Numbers 14:35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
- Numbers 32:10 So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
- Deuteronomy 2:14 The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
- Hebrews 4:5 And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Numbers 14:27 “How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
- Psalms 95:11 So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Hebrews 4:9 There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.