Hebrews 4:8
New International Version
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

New Living Translation
Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come.

English Standard Version
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.

Berean Standard Bible
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

Berean Literal Bible
For if Joshua had given rest to them, He would not have spoken after this about another day.

King James Bible
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

New King James Version
For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

New American Standard Bible
For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.

NASB 1995
For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.

NASB 1977
For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.

Legacy Standard Bible
For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.

Amplified Bible
[This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak about another day [of opportunity] after that.

Christian Standard Bible
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

American Standard Version
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For if Yeshua, son of Nun, had given them rest, he would not afterward have spoken of another day.

Contemporary English Version
If Joshua had really given the people rest, there would not be any need for God to talk about another day of rest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if Jesus had given them rest, he would never have afterwards spoken of another day.

English Revised Version
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If Joshua had given the people rest, God would not have spoken about another day.

Good News Translation
If Joshua had given the people the rest that God had promised, God would not have spoken later about another day.

International Standard Version
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken later about another day.

Literal Standard Version
for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken after these things concerning another day;

Majority Standard Bible
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

New American Bible
Now if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterwards of another day.

NET Bible
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.

New Revised Standard Version
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later about another day.

New Heart English Bible
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

Webster's Bible Translation
For if Jesus had given them rest, then he would not afterward have spoken of another day.

Weymouth New Testament
For if Joshua had given them the true rest, we should not afterwards hear God speaking of another still future day.

World English Bible
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

Young's Literal Translation
for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

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Context
The Sabbath Rest
7God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” 8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.…

Cross References
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

Joshua 22:4
And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan.

Hebrews 1:1
On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.

Hebrews 4:9
There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.


Treasury of Scripture

For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

Jesus, that is, Joshua.

Acts 7:45
Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

had.

Hebrews 11:13-15
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth…

Deuteronomy 12:9
For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.

Deuteronomy 25:19
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

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Hebrews 4
1. The Sabbath-Rest for Christians is attained by faith.
12. The power of God's word.
14. By our high priest Jesus, the Son of God,
16. we may and must go boldly to the throne of grace.














(8) For, had the promise been fulfilled in Joshua's conquest, the Psalm (God in the Psalm) would not be speaking of another day, saying "To-day" (Hebrews 4:7). (In one other place in the New Testament the Greek form of the name of Joshua is preserved. See the Note on Acts 7:45.)

Verses 8, 9. - For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. The conclusion is now drawn: There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God; the true nature of the rest intended being beautifully denoted by the word σαββατισμὸς, which refers to the Divine rest "from the foundation of the world," while the offer of it to true believers always, and not to the Israelites only, is intimated by the phrase, "the people of God."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Now
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

if
Εἰ (Ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

Joshua
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

had given them rest,
κατέπαυσεν (katepausen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2664: From kata and pauo; to settle down, i.e. to colonize, or to desist.

[God] would not have spoken
ἐλάλει (elalei)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.

later
μετὰ (meta)
Preposition
Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives.

about
περὶ (peri)
Preposition
Strong's 4012: From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time.

another
ἄλλης (allēs)
Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 243: Other, another (of more than two), different. A primary word; 'else, ' i.e. Different.

day.
ἡμέρας (hēmeras)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.


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