8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. …
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-19)Here the apostle proceeds in pressing upon them serious counsels and cautions to the close of the chapter; and he recites a passage out of Ps. 95:7; where observe, I. What he counsels them to do—to give a speedy and present attention to the call of Christ. “Hear his voice, assent to, approve of, and consider, what God in Christ speaks unto you; apply it to yourselves with suitable affections and e…
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