“But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?”
King James Version (KJV)
3:16 Were they not all that came out of Egypt - An awful consideration! The whole elect people of God (a very few excepted) provoked God presently after their great deliverance, continued to grieve his Spirit for forty years, and perished in their sin!
3:19 So we see they could not enter in - Though afterward they desired it.
Heb 3:17 With whom was he grieved forty years? With what sort of persons? The answer is, with them that sinned, all of whose bodies were left in the wilderness.