Hebrews 3:17

3:17 And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

Hebrews 12:3

12:3 Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.