Ezekiel 20:15
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Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
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So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”