Hebrews 4:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later about another day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ [This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest, He [God] would not speak afterward about another day.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

Common English Bible

⁸ If Joshua gave the Israelites rest, God wouldn’t have spoken about another day later on.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For if Jesus had offered them rest, he would never have spoken, afterward, about another day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ For if Jesus had given them rest, he would never have afterwards spoken of another day.

Hebrews 4:8 Cross References

1 Chronicles 7:27

Nun his son, Joshua his son.

Psalm 105:44

He gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,

Psalm 78:55

He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Acts 7:45

Our ancestors in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the peoples whom God drove out before our ancestors. And it was there until the time of David,

Deuteronomy 12:9

for you have not yet come into the rest and the possession that the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 25:19

Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies on every hand, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; do not forget.

Hebrews 1:1

Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,

Hebrews 4:9

So then, a Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God,

Joshua 1:15

until the Lord gives rest to your kindred as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them. Then you shall return to your own land and take possession of it, the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan to the east.”

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

Joshua 22:4

And now the Lord your God has given rest to your kindred, as he promised them; therefore turn and go to your tents in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.

Joshua 23:1

A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,