"submitted and loved to be led by Him; but because they so often grieved Him in the desert, He sware in His wrath that they should not enter into His rest, save two who wholly followed Him. God required His people to trust in Him alone. He did not wish them to receive help from those who did not serve Him. 1T 281.1"
"So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)"
EGW directly alludes to Hebrews 3:11, referencing God's oath that they would not enter His rest.
"Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:"
The EGW passage directly references the story of the Israelites in the desert and God's oath that they would not enter His rest, explicitly mentioning the exception of those who wholly followed Him. This is a clear allusion to Numbers 14:23 and the surrounding narrative.
"So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief."
EGW's statement about not entering God's rest due to grieving Him in the desert aligns with the theme of unbelief preventing entry into rest in Hebrews 3:19.
"Please read Ezra 4:1-5 : “Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel; then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither. But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the Lord God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose.” 1T 281.2"
"Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel; Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar–haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither. But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the Lord God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia."
Ellen White directly references Ezra 4:1-5 in this passage.