1 Corinthians 10:5

Yet with most of them God was displeased; for they were struck down in the desert.

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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 all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ.

6Now these things happened as warnings to us, to teach us not to long for evil things as our ancestors longed.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:32Yet for all this they sinned yet more, and refused to believe in his wonders.

Psalms 90:7For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.

Psalms 106:26So he swore with uplifted hand to lay them low 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 →

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