Heb 3:10 | JFB | STEP | 10. grieved —displeased. Compare "walk contrary," . that generation —" that " implies alienation and estrangement. But the oldest manuscripts read, "this." said —" grieved, " or "displeased," at their first offense. Subsequently when they hardened their heart in unbelief still more, He sware in His wrath ( ); an ascending gradation (compare ). and they have not known — Greek, "But these very persons," &c. They perceived I was displeased with them, yet they, the same persons, did not a whit the more wish to know my ways [BENGEL ]; compare "but they," . not known my ways —not known practically and believingly the ways in which I would have had them go, so as to reach My rest ( ).

Hebrews 3:10

10. grieved—displeased. Compare "walk contrary," Le 26:24, 28.

that generation—"that" implies alienation and estrangement. But the oldest manuscripts read, "this."

said—"grieved," or "displeased," at their first offense. Subsequently when they hardened their heart in unbelief still more, He sware in His wrath (Heb 3:11); an ascending gradation (compare Heb 3:17, 18).

and they have not known—Greek, "But these very persons," &c. They perceived I was displeased with them, yet they, the same persons, did not a whit the more wish to know my ways [BENGEL]; compare "but they," Ps 106:43.

not known my ways—not known practically and believingly the ways in which I would have had them go, so as to reach My rest (Ex 18:20).