Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 3:7-9

"Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me,] And saw my works forty years." — Hebrews 3:7-9 (ASV)

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, today if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

That was a house in which it was hard to dwell. It had been Moses' prayer, if Your presence does not go with us, do not carry us up from here; and the curtains had been spread for God's abode, and there was the holy place.

But, Oh! their provocations made it an uneasy house for the Lord of the house, which ultimately He left, rending its veil from the top to the bottom as He left it, for it was finished, and He had done with it.