Hebrew Chapter3 - Observation

The version used is ESV

Titles for God

  • Father - God: 2,4,5,6,12; Builder of all things
  • Son - Jesus: 1,3,6,14; Apostle, High Priest, Builder of the house
  • Holy Spirit: 7

Actions of God, the Father

  • 2 appointed Jesus and Moses
  • 3 counted Jesus worthy of more glory
  • 4 builder of all things
  • 9 miracles worked in the wilderness
  • 10 spoke
  • 11/18 swore in wrath
  • 17 provoked

Actions of God, the Son

  • 2 faithful to God, the Father
  • 3 builder of a house
  • 6 faithful as a son

Actions of Holy Spirit

  • 7 speaks

Actions of man

  • 1 consider Jesus
  • 2 Moses was faihful
  • 5 Moses served God and testified
  • 6 hold fast our confidence and boasting
  • 7 hear Gods voice
  • 8 dont harden and rebel
  • 9 fathers sinned and saw Gods works
  • 10 we provoked God, went astay
  • 11 not enter His rest
  • 12 take care, not fall away
  • 13 exhort one another
  • 14 share in Christ, hold our confidence
  • 15 hear His voice and not rebel
  • 16 those who left Egypt rebelled against God
  • 17 sinned in the wilderness and died
  • 18 disobedient and not enter His rest
  • 19 see, unable to enter

Repeating words

Wordcloud of the KJV text

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and using ESV text

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Here is the Greek Textus Receptus, without any stop words.

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Keywords

  • heavenly calling
  • faith
  • unbelief
  • rebel/ed/lion
  • harden/ened/ing
  • rest

Figures of Speech

Most of the metaphors are also real, so there is a physical, spiritual and metaphorical interpretation of these, not just purely metaphorical.

  • 1 metaphor: share in a heavenly calling
  • 3 metaphor: builder of a house
  • 6 metaphor: God's house; simile: us and house
  • 8 metaphor: harden heart
  • 9 metaphor: put me to test
  • 11 metaphor: enter His rest
  • 12 metaphor: fall away
  • 13 metaphor: today for every day
  • 14 metaphor: share in Christ
  • 17 metaphor: fell for death
  • 18 metaphor: enter His rest

Lists

Cause & effect

  • appointed High Priest by God -> Jesus faithful to God
  • Builder of house -> counted more worthy than Moses
  • Jesus has built us as God's house -> Son in God's house
  • We confess Jesus -> Jesus is High Priest of our confession
  • harden hearts -> provoked God
  • astray in heart + not known God's ways -> does not enter His rest
  • unbelieving heart -> fall away
  • exhort one another -> not fall away
  • sin -> die
  • disobey -> not enter His rest

Compare/Contrasts

  • 2 Jesus compared to Moses
  • 3 Jesus Moses comparison
  • 3 builder of house over house itself
  • 4 someone vs God
  • 5/6 contrast Jesus and Moses
  • 7-19 we are compared to Israelites in Exodus