1 Corinthians 10:5

But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

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In The King James Version

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

In Context

4And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.

6Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:11And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

Numbers 14:37Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

Deuteronomy 1:34And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

Psalms 78:32For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

Psalms 90:7We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

Psalms 106:26So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:

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 →

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