Hebrews 3:11

So I sware in my wrath,.... Swearing is ascribed to God, to show the certainty of the thing spoken of; as of mercies, when he swears in love, and by his holiness; so here, of punishment, when he…

So I sware in my wrath - God is often represented in the Scriptures as “swearing” - and usually as swearing by himself, or by his own existence. Of course this in figurative, and denotes a strong…

So I sware in my wrath - God's grief at their continued disobedience became wrath at their final impenitence, and therefore he excluded them from the promised rest.

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 Psa 95:7, etc., where observe,

I. What he counsels them to do…

So I sware in my wrath The reference is to Num 14:28-30; Num 33:13.

They shall not enter This is the correct rendering of the idiom (here used by a Hebraism) "ifthey shall enter."

my rest The writer…