1 Corinthians 10:1
For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud, and in the sea:
Cross References
Exodus 13:21And the Lord went before them to shew the way by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire: that he might be the guide of their journey at both times.
Exodus 14:29But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and on the left:
Numbers 9:15Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered it. But from the evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire until the morning.
Numbers 14:14And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night,)
Deuteronomy 1:33And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God,
Nehemiah 9:11And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 10:1
In this chapter the apostle prosecutes the argument at the close of the last, and, I. Warns the Corinthians against security, by the example of the Jews, who, notwithstanding their profession and privileges, were terribly punished of God for their many sins, their history being left upon record for the admonition of Christians, ver. 1-14 . II. He resumes his former argument ( ch. viii. ), about eating things offered to idols; and shows that it was utterly inconsistent with true Christianity, that it was downright… Read the whole commentary →