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

3And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

1 Corinthians 10:5 word by word

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

• ·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 14:11And Yhwh said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
• Numbers 26:64But 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.
• Deuteronomy 1:34And Yhwh heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
• Deuteronomy 2:15For indeed the hand of Yhwh was against them, to destroy them from among the army, until they were consumed.
• Psalms 78:32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
• Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
• Psalms 95:11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
• Psalms 106:26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
• Hebrews 3:17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
• Jude 1:5I 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.

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
• Wicked (People)

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