1 Corinthians 10:6

A History Lesson From Israel

⁵ However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. ⁶ Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. ⁷ Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

For Us

Teach Us

Numbers 11:4

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat?

1 Corinthians 10:11

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Numbers 11:31-34

A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.

Psalm 78:27-31

He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Psalm 106:14-15

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

Zephaniah 3:6-7

I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

Romans 5:14

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

Hebrews 4:11

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

1 Peter 3:21

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you -- not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

2 Peter 2:6

and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

Jude 1:7

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.