But. — Better, And with whom was He angry forty years?
Whose carcases. — Literally, limbs. The word is taken from the Greek version of Numbers 14:29; and seems intended to convey the thought of bodies falling limb from limb in the wilderness.
Related Commentaries of Hebrews 3:17
Hebrews 3:17
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?