Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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," etc.
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.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 10:5:
1 Corinthians 9:24
1 Corinthians 10:1
1 Corinthians 10:12
2 Timothy 3:16
Hebrews 3:16
1 Peter 3:21
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