1 Corinthians 10:5

1 Corinthians 10:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• New International Version (NIV)Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Context of 1 Corinthians 10:5

3They all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, since they were struck down in the wilderness. 6Now these things took place as examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did. 7Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.

1 Corinthians 10:5 word by word

ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἐν τοῖς πλείοσιν αὐτῶν εὐδόκησεν ὁ θεός· κατεστρώθησαν γὰρ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Butἀλλάalla · butG235
• withἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• manyπλείων, πλεῖονpleiōn pleion pleon · greaterG4119
• of themαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• wasεὐδοκέωeudokeō · to delightG2106
• notοὐou · noG3756
• forγάρgar · forG1063
• they were overthrownκαταστρώννυμιkatastrōnnumi · be thrown downG2693
• the wildernessἔρημοςerēmos · desertedG2048

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 10:5

• Numbers 14:11The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise me? How long will they not trust in me despite all the signs I have performed among them?
• Numbers 26:64But among them there was not one of those who had been registered by Moses and the priest Aaron when they registered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
• Deuteronomy 1:34“When the Lord heard your words, he grew angry and swore an oath:
• Deuteronomy 2:15Indeed, the Lord’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp until they had all perished.
• Psalms 78:32Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe his wondrous works.
• Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.
• Psalms 95:11So I swore in my anger, “They will not enter my rest.”
• Psalms 106:26So he raised his hand against them with an oath that he would make them fall in the desert
• Hebrews 3:17With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
• Jude 1:5Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 10:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5They were overthrown in the wilderness - And yet All these persons were under the cloud - All passed through the sea - All were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea - All ate the same spiritual meat - All drank the same spiritual drink, for they were made partakers of the spiritual Rock, Christ. Nothing can be a more decisive proof than this that people, who have every outward ordinance, and are made partakers of the grace of our Lord Jesus…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5But with many of them … - That is, with their conduct. They rebelled and sinned, and were destroyed. The design of the apostle here is, to remind them that although they enjoyed so many privileges, yet they were destroyed; and thus to admonish the Corinthians that their privileges did not constitute an absolute security from danger, and that they should be cautious against the indulgence of sin. The phrase rendered here “with many” ̓ ͂ ́ en tois…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-11The Israelites were God's people and experienced his salvation and provision (see Exodus 13:21–22; 14:21–29). However, they still faced his judgment because they disobeyed.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. But--though they had so many tokens of God's presence. many of them--rather, "the majority of them"; "the whole part." All except Joshua and Caleb of the first generation. not--in the Greek emphatically standing in the beginning of the sentence: "Not," as one might have naturally expected, "with the more part of them was," &c. God--whose judgment alone is valid. for--the event showed, they had not pleased God. overthrown--literally, "strewn in heaps."…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Corinthians 10:5

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Backsliders
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In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Admonition
• Lust
• Meekness
• Corinthians, First Epistle to the
• Law in the New Testament
• Paul, the Apostle
• Pauline Theology

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings