"But with whom was he grieved forty years? {was it} not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?" — Hebrews 3:17

Hebrews 3:17 · KJV

“But with whom was he grieved forty years? {was it} not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?”

— Hebrews 3:17

Verse 16

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Verse 18

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Hebrews 3 — Context

While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

But with whom was he grieved forty years? {was it} not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Cross References

Numbers 14:29

Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

Numbers 14:32-33

But {as for} you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

Numbers 14:22

Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Numbers 26:64-65

But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

Deuteronomy 2:15-16

For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

Jude 1:5

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather {them}.

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;