1st Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 10 Holy Bible
Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
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And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.
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Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
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Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
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Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
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neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Neither murmur ye (Numbers 14:2, 29; Numbers 16:41, 49). The Corinthians were at this time murmuring against their teacher and apostle. Of the destroyer. All plagues and similar great catastrophes, as well as all individual deaths, were believed by the Jews to be the work of an angel whom they called Sammael (see Exodus 12:23; 2 Samuel 24:16; Job 33:22; 2 Macc. 15:22). In the retribution narrated in Numbers 16:41, etc., fourteen thousand seven hundred perished.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Neither murmur ye.--The reference here is to Numbers 16:41-47, and the historical event alluded to--viz., the murmuring of the Israelites against their God-given leaders, Moses and Aaron--is analogous to the murmuring of the Corinthians against their Apostle, St. Paul. It is noticeable that St. Paul attributes the death of the people to the Destroyer--i.e., God's messenger sent to destroy--while in Numbers they are said to have perished by the "plague." Every pestilence that swept over nations to purify them was a messenger from God. Thus in Psalm 78:50 God is said to give "their life over to the pestilence," which in Exodus 12:23 is spoken of as "the destroyer."
