Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 2:17

"Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people." — Hebrews 2:17 (ASV)

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)

God speaks very lovingly of the bodies of his saints, but see how he speaks of the bodies of apostates, whose carcases, as if they were no better than so many brute beasts, whose carcases fell in the wilderness.