Hebrews 3:17
3:17 And against whom was God 1 provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 2
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.
1 tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.
2 sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.