15Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. …
And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-26)The history of the struggle between the sins of Israel, by which they endeavoured to ruin themselves, and the mercies of God, by which he endeavoured to save them and make them happy, is here continued: and the instances of that struggle in these verses have reference to what passed between God and them in the wilderness, in which God honoured himself and they shamed themselves. The story of Israe…
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