1 Corinthians 10:5
However with most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 14:11And LORD said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?
Numbers 14:37even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before LORD.
Deuteronomy 1:34And LORD heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
Psalms 78:32For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms 106:26Therefore he swore to them, that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 10:2-6
Admonitions and Warnings. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. In order… Read the whole commentary →