Verse 5
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.
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