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Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 95:11	Strong Concordance	Unto whom I sware [07650] in my wrath [0639] that they should not enter [0935] into my rest [04496].
	King James	Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Unto whom I sware in my wrath - See the notes at Heb 3:11. That they should not enter into my rest - Margin, as in Hebrew, "If they enter into my rest." The "rest" here referred to was the land of Canaan. They were not permitted to enter there as a place of "rest" after their long and weary wanderings, but died in the wilderness. The meaning is not that none of them were saved (for we must hope that very many of them were brought to the heavenly Canaan), but that they did not come to the promised land. Unbelief shut them out; and this fact is properly made use of here, and in Heb. 3, as furnishing a solemn warning to all not to be unbelieving and rebellious, since the consequence of unbelief and rebellion must be to exclude us from the kingdom of heaven, the true place of "rest."

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Unto whom I sware in my wrath - See the notes at Heb 3:11.

That they should not enter into my rest - Margin, as in Hebrew, "If they enter into my rest." The "rest" here referred to was the land of Canaan. They were not permitted to enter there as a place of "rest" after their long and weary wanderings, but died in the wilderness. The meaning is not that none of them were saved (for we must hope that very many of them were brought to the heavenly Canaan), but that they did not come to the promised land. Unbelief shut them out; and this fact is properly made use of here, and in Heb. 3, as furnishing a solemn warning to all not to be unbelieving and rebellious, since the consequence of unbelief and rebellion must be to exclude us from the kingdom of heaven, the true place of "rest."

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
My rest - Into the promised land, which is called the rest, Deu 12:9.

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¹¹ So [5613] I sware [3660] in [1722] my [3450] wrath [3709], They shall [1525] not [1487] enter [1525] into [1519] my [3450] rest [2663].)

⁹ For ye are not as yet come [0935] to the rest [04496] and to the inheritance [05159], which the LORD [03068] your God [0430] giveth [05414] you.