Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
With most of them (en toiv pleiosin autwn). "A mournful understatement," for only two (Caleb and Joshua) actually reached the Promised Land (Numbers 14:30-32). All the rest were rejected or adokimoi (1 Corinthians 9:27).
Were overthrown (katestrwqhsan). First aorist passive indicative of katastrwnnumi, 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 Numbers 14:16.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Colossians 1:19
Jude 1:5
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