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Harden not your hearts: to help in the former duty the Spirit subjoins this negative counsel. That is styled hard, which will not yield to any impression: make not your heart a stone, so as not to understand, believe, or obey God’s voice to it, Deu_15:17 1Sa_6:6; for God requires them to be fleshy tables, to write his will on, 2Co_3:3. The hardening of this part is the hardening of the whole person, and when hardened by themselves, is provoking God’s judicial hardening of them to their destruction.
As in the provocation; en tw parapikrasmw, in the bitter contention, comprehending in it both work, season, and place; called Meribah, Num_20:13,14; names of places and persons by words of the same signification, though not of the same sound.
In the day of temptation in the wilderness; in the day of Massah, when Israel in the wilderness did murmur, and strive against, and vexed God, (after he had divided the sea for them), for their want of water, Exo_17:2,7 Deu 6:16 33:8; that bitter contest of unbelief after the sight of so many miracles, when they cried out: Is the Lord among us? Psa_95:8. It may also refer to the whole forty years’ time of their murmuring and tempting him in the wilderness.