Hebrews 3:17
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New International Version (©2011)
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?

New Living Translation (©2007)
And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn't it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness?

English Standard Version (©2001)
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
And who was He provoked with for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

International Standard Version (©2012)
And with whom was he angry for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell dead in the wilderness?

NET Bible (©2006)
And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And with whom was he wearied 40 years, but with them who sinned and whose bones fell in the wilderness?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
With whom was God angry for 40 years? He was angry with those who sinned and died in the desert.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

American King James Version
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

American Standard Version
And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

Darby Bible Translation
And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

English Revised Version
And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Webster's Bible Translation
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

Weymouth New Testament
And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?

World English Bible
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Young's Literal Translation
but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:14-19 The saints' privilege is, they are made partakers of Christ, that is, of the Spirit, the nature, graces, righteousness, and life of Christ; they are interested in all Christ is, in all he has done, or will do. The same spirit with which Christians set out in the ways of God, they should maintain unto the end. Perseverance in faith is the best evidence of the sincerity of our faith. Hearing the word often is a means of salvation, yet, if not hearkened to, it will expose more to the Divine wrath. The happiness of being partakers of Christ and his complete salvation, and the fear of God's wrath and eternal misery, should stir us up to persevere in the life of obedient faith. Let us beware of trusting to outward privileges or professions, and pray to be numbered with the true believers who enter heaven, when all others fail because of unbelief. As our obedience follows according to the power of our faith, so our sins and want of care are according to the prevailing of unbelief in us.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But with whom was he grieved forty years?.... As is said in Psalm 95:10; see Gill on Hebrews 3:10,

was it not with them that had sinned; not merely by committing personal iniquities, and particular provocations, which all men are guilty of, but by committing public sins; they sinned as a body of men; they joined together in the commission of sin; every sin is grieving to God, because it is contrary to his nature, is an act of enmity to him, is a transgression of his righteous law, and a contempt of his authority; but especially public sins, or the sins of a multitude, and when they are persisted in, which was the case of the Israelites; they sinned against him during the forty years they were in the wilderness; and so long was he grieved with them: the Alexandrian copy reads, "with them that believed not"; which points out the particular sin these men were guilty of, and which was so grieving to God, and suits well with the apostle's design:

whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? and so never entered into the land of Canaan. They died in the wilderness; and they did not die common and natural deaths, at least not all of them; their deaths were by way of punishment; in a way of wrath; in a judicial way: the Syriac version renders it, "their bones fell in the wilderness"; they lay scattered and unburied, and exposed to view, as an example of divine vengeance, see Numbers 14:29.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. But—Translate, "Moreover," as it is not in contrast to Heb 3:16, but carrying out the same thought.

corpses—literally, "limbs," implying that their bodies fell limb from limb.

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The Dangers of Unbelief
…16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: however, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Numbers 14:28 So tell them, 'As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say:
Numbers 14:29 In this wilderness your bodies will fall--every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.
Numbers 14:37 these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.
Numbers 26:64 Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai.
Psalm 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.'
1 Corinthians 10:5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.