Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Corinthians 10:5

"Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness." — 1 Corinthians 10:5 (ASV)

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

There was no evidence of faith in many of them, and without faith it is impossible to please God. Is it not a sad thing that, in a people so highly favored as they were, there should have been so large a proportion of those who had not the faith which renders men pleasing to God? So they did literally come out into the wilderness to die there, and they never entered into the rest of God.