Hebrews 4:8
Good News Translation
If Joshua had given the people the rest that God had promised, God would not have spoken later about another day.

New Revised Standard Version
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later about another day.

Contemporary English Version
If Joshua had really given the people rest, there would not be any need for God to talk about another day of rest.

New American Bible
Now if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterwards of another day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if Jesus had given them rest he would never have afterwards spoken of another day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Jesus, that is, Joshua.

Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the possession of the Gentiles: whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David,

had.

Hebrews 11:13-15 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. . . .

Deuteronomy 12:9 For until this present time you are not come to rest, and to the possession, which the Lord your God will give you.

Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall have subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath promised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou forget it not.

Joshua 1:15 Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them: and so you shall return into the land of your possession, and you shall dwell in it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.

Joshua 22:4 Therefore as the Lord your God hath given your brethren rest and peace, as he promised: return, and go to your dwellings, and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan:

Joshua 23:1 And when a long time was passed, after that the Lord had given peace to Israel, all the nations round about being subdued. and Joshua being now old, and far advanced in years:

Psalm 78:55 And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Psalm 105:44 And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:

Context
The Sabbath Rest
7Again he limiteth a certain day, saying in David; To day, after so long a time as it is above said: To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8For if Jesus had given them rest he would never have afterwards spoken of another day. 9There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.…
Cross References
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord spoke to Moses, and delivered it in possession to the children of Israel, according to their divisions and tribes. And the land rested from wars.

Joshua 22:4
Therefore as the Lord your God hath given your brethren rest and peace, as he promised: return, and go to your dwellings, and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan:

Hebrews 1:1
God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

Hebrews 4:9
There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.

Hebrews 4:7
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