Charles Ellicott Commentary Hebrews 3:17

"And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?" — Hebrews 3:17 (ASV)

But.—Better, And with whom was He angry forty years?

Whose carcases.—Literally, limbs. The word is taken from the Greek version of Numbers 14:29; and seems intended to convey the thought of bodies falling limb from limb in the wilderness.