Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Harden not your hearts--This phrase here only is used of man's own act; usually of God's act (Romans 9:18). When man is spoken of as the agent in hardening, the phrase usually is, "harden his neck," or "back" (Nehemiah 9:17).
provocation . . . temptation--"Massah-meribah," translated in Margin "tentation . . . chiding," or "strife" (Exodus 17:1-7). Both names seem to refer to that one event, the murmuring of the people against the Lord at Rephidim for want of water. The first offense especially ought to be guarded against, and is the most severely reproved, as it is apt to produce many more. Numbers 20:1-13 and Deuteronomy 33:8 mention a second similar occasion in the wilderness of Sin, near Kadesh, also called Meribah.
in the day--Greek, "according to the day of."
Exhortation from Psalms 95:7-11, not through unbelief to lose participation in the spiritual house. Seeing that we are the house of God if we hold fast our confidence . . . (Hebrews 3:6). Jesus is "faithful," be not ye unfaithful (Hebrews 3:2, Hebrews 3:12). The sentence beginning with "wherefore," interrupted by the parenthesis confirming the argument from Psalms 95:7-11, is completed at Hebrews 3:12, "Take heed," etc.
Holy Ghost saith--by the inspired Psalmist; so that the words of the latter are the words of God Himself.
To-day--at length; in David's day, as contrasted with the days of Moses in the wilderness, and the whole time since then, during which they had been rebellious against God's voice; as for instance, in the wilderness (Hebrews 3:8). The Psalm, each fresh time when used in public worship, by "to-day," will mean the particular day when it was, or is, used.
hear--obediently.
his voice--of grace.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Exodus 17:7
Romans 9:18
Hebrews 3:7-11
Hebrews 3:13
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