| Geneva Study Bible But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. People's New Testament 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased. All were baptized, all were fed, all did drink, but notwithstanding God had done so much for them all without exception, many were overthrown in the wilderness. Fell in the wilderness because of their sins (Nu 14:35 26:65); a startling warning to Christians on the journey. Wesley's Notes 10:5 Yet - Although they had so many tokens of the divine presence. They were overthrown - With the most terrible marks of his displeasure. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 5. 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." in the wilderness-far from the land of promise. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 10:1-5 To dissuade the Corinthians from communion with idolaters, and security in any sinful course, the apostle sets before them the example of the Jewish nation of old. They were, by a miracle, led through the Red Sea, where the pursuing Egyptians were drowned. It was to them a typical baptism. The manna on which they fed was a type of Christ crucified, the Bread which came down from heaven, which whoso eateth shall live for ever. Christ is the Rock on which the Christian church is built; and of the streams that issue therefrom, all believers drink, and are refreshed. It typified the sacred influences of the Holy Spirit, as given to believers through Christ. But let none presume upon their great privileges, or profession of the truth; these will not secure heavenly happiness. | 
