1 Corinthians 10:5
3 They all ate the same spiritual food
4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
6 These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- KJV
- But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- WEB
- However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- ASV
- Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- DARBY
- yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.
- BLB
- But God was not well pleased in most of them, for they were strewn in the wilderness.
- ÅB
- allikevel hadde Gud ikke behag i de fleste av dem; for de ble slått ned i ørkenen.
- OTB
- Likevel var Gud ikke fornøyd med de fleste av dem; deres kropper ble spredt i ørkenen.
- B1930
- allikevel hadde Gud ikke behag i de fleste av dem; for de blev slått ned i ørkenen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Read in contextJude 1:5
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
Read in contextNumbers 26:64–65
Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Read in contextNumbers 14:37
those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 106:26
So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
Read in contextNumbers 14:11–12
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
Read in contextNumbers 14:28–35
So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
Read in contextPsalms 78:32–34
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
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