Hebrews 3:17 meaning and explanation
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Hebrews 3:17, Berean Standard Bible
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The writer to the Hebrews is preaching to a congregation tempted to drift, and he draws on Psalm 95 and the wilderness story of Exodus and Numbers. God's anger burned for forty years, the whole period of wandering, against the generation that left Egypt and kept sinning in unbelief.
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