5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. …
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)In order to dissuade the Corinthians from communion with idolaters, and security in any sinful course, he sets before them the example of the Jews, the church under the Old Testament. They enjoyed great privileges, but, having been guilty of heinous provocations, they fell under very grievous punishments. In these verses he reckons up their privileges, which, in the main, were the same with ours.…
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