AUV(i)
16 For who were they who heard [God] and provoked [Him]? Was it not everyone who was led out of Egypt by Moses?
17 And who was God angry with for forty years? Was it not with those people who sinned, whose bodies fell [dead] in the desert?
18 And to whom did God vow that they would not enter a state of rest with Him? [Was it not] those who were disobedient to Him?
19 And [so] we see that they were not able to enter [a state of rest with God] because of [their] unbelief.
4 1 So, as long as God’s promise of entering into a state of rest with Him [still] remains, we should fear that someone among you will appear [in the end] to have fallen short of [attaining] it. [Note: In this section “entering into rest” refers to Israel entering Canaan (verses 6, 8) and to Christians entering heaven (verses 3, 9). The “Sabbath day rest” is represented as a type of both]. 2 For we [Christians] have had the good news [about resting with God] preached to us, just as the Israelites [had good news proclaimed to them. See 1:16-19]. But the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not coupled with faith by those who heard it.
4 1 So, as long as God’s promise of entering into a state of rest with Him [still] remains, we should fear that someone among you will appear [in the end] to have fallen short of [attaining] it. [Note: In this section “entering into rest” refers to Israel entering Canaan (verses 6, 8) and to Christians entering heaven (verses 3, 9). The “Sabbath day rest” is represented as a type of both]. 2 For we [Christians] have had the good news [about resting with God] preached to us, just as the Israelites [had good news proclaimed to them. See 1:16-19]. But the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not coupled with faith by those who heard it.