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
and using ESV text
Here is the Greek Textus Receptus, without any stop words.
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