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Thank you @tall73 yes Hebrews 4:5 is a quote from Psalms 95:11.."I declare on oath in my anger, "they shall Never enter my Rest".. thanks for bringing up this quote..This seems important to clarify before addressing some of the other.
The same is used in Hebrews 3:11, quoting Psalm 95, where the context is clearly a reference to God's oath that they would not enter in:
Heb 3:11 ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου, εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου.
Heb 3:10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’
Heb 3:11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘if they they shall enter my rest.’”
This is in reference to the generation in the wilderness:
Num 14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
Num 14:29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,
Num 14:30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deu 1:34 “And the LORD heard your words and was angered, and he swore,
Deu 1:35 ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,
Deu 1:35 Εἰ ὄψεταί τις τῶν ἀνδρῶν τούτων τὴν ἀγαθὴν ταύτην γῆν, ἣν ὤμοσα τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν,
He appears to be using an oath formula or idiom that was employed in several places in translating the LXX as listed below, and also occurs in the Greek of Mark 8:12.
Vincent's word studies;
Lit. if they shall enter, etc. A common Hebraistic formula in oaths. Where God is speaking, as here, the ellipsis is “may I not be Jehovah if they shall enter.” Where man is speaking, “so may God punish me if”; or “God do so to me and more if.” Comp. Mar_8:12 : lxx, Gen_14:23; Deu_1:35; 1Ki_1:51; 1Ki_2:8. Sometimes the ellipsis is filled out, as 1Sa_3:17; 2Sa_3:35.
An example of the filled out idiom when used by a person:
2Sa 3:35 Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, “God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!”
It is a quote of Psalm 95, which is Psalm 94 in the LXX
Psa 95:11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.”
Psa 94:11 ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου Εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου.
So in short, it is an oath formula indicating they will not enter.
You could render it: "if they enter into my rest I am not the LORD. "
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