1 Corinthians 10:5

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637
For they were overthrown in the wilderness. All the Hebrews who left Egypt with Moses died for their sins in the wilderness, except Joshua and Caleb, who, with a new generation, entered the Promised Land ( Numbers 14:29).

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
God was not well pleased Of 600,000, only Josue and Caleb entered the land of promise; the rest were destroyed, and perished in the wilderness. Their punishment ought to be an admonition to all to avoid such sins of idolatry, fornication, murmuring

Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202
He thus clearly shows that the very same King who gathered from all quarters the faithful to the marriage of His Son, and who grants them the incorruptible banquet,

John Chrysostom

AD 407
The Israelites were not in the land of promise when God did these things to them. Thus it was that he visited them with a double vengeance, because he did not allow them to see the land which had been promised to them, and he punished them severely as well.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
For they were overthrown, says he, in the wilderness. Declaring by this word both the sweeping destruction, and the punishments and the vengeance inflicted by God, and that they did not so much as attain to the rewards proposed to them. Neither were they in the land of promise when He did these things unto them, but without and afar somewhere, and wide of that country; He thus visiting them with a double vengeance, both by not permitting them to see the land, and this too though promised unto them, and also by actual severe punishment. And what are these things to us? Say you. To you surely they belong.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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