1 Corinthians 10:5
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But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

Numbers 14:11,12,28-35 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them? . . .

Numbers 26:64,65 Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai. . . .

Deuteronomy 1:34,35 And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry and swore, and said: . . .

Deuteronomy 2:15,16 For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp. . . .

Psalm 78:32-34 In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for his wondrous works. . . .

Psalm 90:7,8 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation. . . .

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Psalm 95:11 And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

Psalm 106:26 And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;

Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Context
Warnings from Israel's Past
4And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.) 5But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert. 6Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.…
Cross References
Numbers 14:22
But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Numbers 14:29
In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,

Numbers 14:32
Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:37
Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

Numbers 26:65
For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:35
Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:

Deuteronomy 2:14
And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:

Ezekiel 20:36
As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God.

Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

Jude 1:5
I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Lexicon
Nevertheless,
ἀλλ’ (all’)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

God
Θεός (Theos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

was not pleased
εὐδόκησεν (eudokēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2106: To be well-pleased, think it good, be resolved. From eu and dokeo; to think well of, i.e. Approve; specially, to approbate.

with
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

most
πλείοσιν (pleiosin)
Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural - Comparative
Strong's Greek 4119: Or neuter pleion, or pleon comparative of polus; more in quantity, number, or quality; also the major portion.

of them,
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

for
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

they were struck down
κατεστρώθησαν (katestrōthēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2693: To strew or spread over; I lay low, overthrow. From kata and stronnumi; to strew down, i.e. to prostrate.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῇ (tē)
Article - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

wilderness.
ἐρήμῳ (erēmō)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2048: Lonesome, i.e. waste.


Additional Translations
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

Nevertheless, God was not well pleased with most of them, for they were strewn in the wilderness.

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

Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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

But with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the Desert.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,
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