6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)The apostle, having recited their privileges, proceeds here to an account of their faults and punishments, their sins and plagues, which are left upon record for an example to us, a warning against the like sins, if we would escape the like punishments. We must not do as they did, lest we suffer as they suffered. I. Several of their sins are specified as cautions to us; as, 1. We should shun inord…
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