1Cor 10:5 | RWP | e4.org | With most of them ( εν τοις πλειοσιν αυτων ). "A mournful understatement," for only two (Caleb and Joshua) actually reached the Promised Land ( ). All the rest were rejected or αδοκιμο ( ). Were overthrown ( κατεστρωθησαν ). First aorist passive indicative of καταστρωννυμ , old compound verb, to stretch or spread down as of a couch, to lay low (Euripides), as if by a hurricane. Powerful picture of the desolation wrought by the years of disobedience and wanderings in the desert by this verb quoted from .

‏ 1 Corinthians 10:5

With most of them ( εν τοις πλειοσιν αυτων ). "A mournful understatement," for only two (Caleb and Joshua) actually reached the Promised Land (Nu 14:30-32). All the rest were rejected or αδοκιμο (9:27).

Were overthrown ( κατεστρωθησαν ). First aorist passive indicative of καταστρωννυμ, old compound verb, to stretch or spread down as of a couch, to lay low (Euripides), as if by a hurricane. Powerful picture of the desolation wrought by the years of disobedience and wanderings in the desert by this verb quoted from Nu 14:16.