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Hebrews 3:16 For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?  (NASB: Lockman)

Greek: tines gar akousantes (AAPMPN) parepikranan (3PAAI) all ou pantes oi exelthontes (AAPMPN) ex Aiguptou dia Mouseos
Amplified: For who were they who heard and yet were rebellious and provoked [Him]? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
(Amplified Bible - Lockman)
Barclay:  (Westminster Press)
NLT:  (
NLT - Tyndale House)
Phillips: (
Phillips: Touchstone)
Wuest: (
Erdmans
Young's Literal:  For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

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FOR WHO PROVOKED HIM WHEN THEY HEARD: tines gar akousantes (AAPMPN) parepikranan (3PAAI) tines gar akousantes (AAPMPN) parepikranan: (9,10; Numbers 14:2,4; 26:65; Psalms 78:17)

The children of Israel provoked God to bitterness and anger, exasperating God Who had graciously promised them the land of milk and honey. Without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please Him...by faith men of old gained approval.
might better be translated as: “For who after they heard, did embitter (God)? Yea, did not all who came out of Egypt through Moses?”

The use of the aorist participle puts the emphasis on the nature of the action, rather than an idea involving continuation or a single act.

INDEED, DID NOT ALL THOSE WHO CAME OUT OF EGYPT LED BY MOSES:all ou pantes oi exelthontes (AAPMPN) ex Aiguptou dia Mouseos: (Numbers 14:24,30,38; Deuteronomy 1:36,38; Joshua 14:7-11; Romans 11:4,5)

What a great start...but the writer is saying it's not how you start but how you finish so hold fast...until the end of the wilderness journey.  Be careful not to misinterpret this statement. He is not saying your holding fast will save you. That would be a salvation of works or a salvation of faith plus works, neither of which is every taught in Scripture. But he is saying that if you are saved, you will hold fast because you have a power within you to enable you to hold fast. You could not so it on your own. You could not save yourself on your own and you cannot keep yourself saved in your own power. How often we believers try this latter approach, only to find that temptation and/or sin simply overwhelms us. When we believed, we were sealed with the Spirit, Who had been promised. The seal is a mark of ownership, of authenticity and of protection. God will not "unseal" those who have been sealed. (See notes on Ephesians 1:14)

 

Hebrews 3:17  And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? (NASB: Lockman)

Greek: tisin de prosochthisen (3SAAI) tesserakonta ete ouchi tois hamartesasin (AAPMPD) on ta kola epesen (3SAAI) en te eremo
Amplified: And with whom was He irritated and provoked and grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dismembered bodies were strewn and left in the desert? 
(Amplified Bible - Lockman)
Barclay:  (Westminster Press)
NLT:  (
NLT - Tyndale House)
Phillips:   (
Phillips: Touchstone)
Wuest: (
Erdmans
Young's Literal: And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

AND WITH WHOM WAS HE ANGRY FOR FORTY YEARS?: tisin de prosochthisen (3SAAI) tesserakonta ete:  (Anger of God, The)

Four different terms are employed to drive the point of rebellion home: “all those” (v16), “sinned” (v17), “disobedient” (v18), and “unbelief” (v19).

Was...angry (prosochthizo from pros = toward or with + ochtheô = be sorely vexed; feel indignant at; loathe; spew out; be disgusted with; extreme anger and disgust) is expressive of a strong displeasure, amounting to offence. God was offended at the actions of Israel.

Grieved in KJV does not adequately express the righteous anger of God intimated in the passage and fails to accurately reflect the extreme anger and disgust of God.

What does the "40 years" refer to? Nu 13:25ff: The spies into Canaan had begun to look at their circumstances and taken their focus off what God has promised. When they took their eyes off of God, fear began to enter in. They so provoked God that they were denied the very thing that they had wanted. So Israel's "rest" was a land but they were refused entry to Canaan bc they failed to believe God. Failure to Believe is not ignorance but stubbornness as they refused to obey God and thus they were refused rest.

WAS IT NOT WITH THOSE WHO SINNED, WHOSE BODIES FELL IN THE WILDERNESS: ouchi tois hamartesasin (AAPMPD) on ta kola epesen (3SAAI) en te eremo: (
Numbers 26:64,65; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13)  (Numbers 14:22,29,32,33; Deuteronomy 2:15,16; Jeremiah 9:22; Jude 1:5)

Having missed the mark when they swerved from the truth that God had promised them entry and victory in the land. They refused to belief and unbelief is disobedience and disobedience is sin.

Bodies -  carcasses. [Ro 6:23,Eph 2:1] members of the body like feet, in LXX = dead body [Nu 14:29] (your corpses shall fall in this wilderness). Also Nu 14:32,33.

The reader will die in his sins if he fails to put his faith in Messiah as High Priest (and bring forth fruit in keeping w repentance (Mt3:8), just as the wilderness wanderers died a physical death because of unbelief

Fell - Those bodies fell at the rate of about 90 corpses/day. When used to describe a building this verb paints the pix of an edifice that has fallen into ruin!

Wilderness (eremos) is desolate, deserted, lonely spot.

The writer is alluding to Nu 14:29,32,33. Paul speaks of the same thing in 1Cor 10:5 where the literal translation of the Greek gives us the picture of this tragic event, “They were strewn down along in the wilderness.”

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