ISB ~ Hebrews 3 v5 - 6

Moses and Jesus are compared.

• The backdrop is Num 12:7, where Moses is honored as the Lord’s “servant”, who is put in charge of his “house”, i.e., the whole covenant people. Jesus is also a father figure over the household of God’s people, not as a servant, however, but as the faithful first-born Son (1:4-6). Some perceive an additional allusion to Nathan’s oracle, where the messianic heir of David is designated the “son” of God and the one who will “build” a “house” for God (2 Sam 7:13-14; 1 Chron 17:13-14).