Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert.

New American Standard Bible

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

But God wasn't pleased with most of those people, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Nevertheless, God was not well-pleased with most of them, for they were scattered along the ground in the wilderness [because their lack of self-control led to disobedience which led to death].

An Understandable Version

However, God was not pleased with the vast majority of them, for their bodies were scattered over the desert [See Num. 14:29ff].

Anderson New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness.

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

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

John Wesley New Testament

for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

But God was not pleased with the majority of them, for they were struck down in the desert.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But in many of them had God no delight. For they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Moffatt New Testament

still with most of them God was not satisfied; they were laid low in the desert.

Montgomery New Testament

But in most of them God was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the desert.

NET Bible

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

but with many of them God was not pleased; for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

The Emphasized Bible

Nevertheless, with the most of them, God, was not well-pleased, for they were strewed along in the desert.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

Yet with most of them God was displeased; for they were 'struck down in the desert.'

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

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

Williams New Testament

still with the most of them God was not at all satisfied, for He allowed them to be laid low in the desert.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

But in the most of them God took no pleasure; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Worsley New Testament

But with the greater part of them God was displeased: for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But
ἀλλά 
Alla 
but, yea, yet, nevertheless, howbeit, nay, therefore, save, not tr,
Usage: 461

with
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

πλείων πλεῖον πλέον 
Pleion 
Usage: 40

of them

Usage: 0

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

was
εὐδοκέω 
Eudokeo 
Usage: 20

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

εὐδοκέω 
Eudokeo 
Usage: 20

for
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

καταστρώννυμι 
Katastronnumi 
Usage: 1

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Context Readings

A History Lesson From Israel

4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock following; and the Rock was Christ. 5 But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert. 6 And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired.

Cross References

Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert?

Jude 1:5

And I wish to remind you, ye having once known this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed them not having believed.

Numbers 14:28-35

Say to them, I live, says Jehovah, if not as ye spake in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Numbers 26:64-65

And among these there was not a man from the reviewings of Moses and Aaron the priest, who reviewed the sons of Israel in the desert of Sinai.

Psalm 106:26

And he will lift up his hand against them: he will cause them to fall in the desert:

Numbers 14:11-12

And Jehovah will say to Moses How long will this people reject me and how long will they not believe in me by all the signs which I did in the midst of them?

Numbers 14:37

And the men bringing forth evil slander of the land shall die by the blow before Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 1:34-35

And Jehovah will hear the voice of your words, and he will be angry, and he will swear, saying,

Deuteronomy 2:15-16

For also the hand of Jehovah was against them to finish them from the midst of the camp, till their finishing.

Psalm 78:32-34

In all this they yet sinned, and they believed not in his wonders.

Psalm 90:1

Prayer to Moses the man of God. O Jehovah, thou wert a refuge to us in generation and generation.

Psalm 90:7-8

For we were finished in thine Anger, and in thy wrath we were terrified.

Psalm 95:11

For I sware in mine anger if they shall come in to my rest

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