John Gill Commentary Hebrews 4:7

"he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts." — Hebrews 4:7 (ASV)

Again he limits a certain day
Since the seventh day of the creation was a day of rest which God entered into, and not man; and since the land of Canaan was a typical rest, which the unbelieving Israelites did not enter into, because of unbelief; and yet there must be persons, and there must be a time for them to enter into the true rest which God has left a promise of; therefore he has limited, fixed, and appointed a certain day, the Gospel dispensation, for believers to enter into it:

saying in David ;
or by David, who was the penman of the 95th psalm, as may be learned from hence; and this is agreeably to, and confirms a rule which the Jews give, that those psalms which are without a title were written by David ^F7 ; the Spirit of God spoke in him and by him, and plainly pointed out another day of rest from the above mentioned:

today, after so long a time ;
as two thousand five hundred years from the first seventh day to the time of Moses, and five hundred years from the times of Moses and Joshua, to his:

as it is said ;
the Alexandrian copy reads, "as it is before said", or, "above said", as the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions; that is, in (Psalms 95:7Psalms 95:8) before cited, (Hebrews 3:7Hebrews 3:8)

today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts ;
(See Gill on Hebrews 3:7), (See Gill on Hebrews 3:8).

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FOOTNOTES:

• F7: Aben Ezra & Kimchi Praefat. in Tillim.