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With most of them (en tois pleiosin autōn). “A mournful understatement,” for only two (Caleb and Joshua) actually reached the Promised Land (Num 14:30-32). All the rest were rejected or adokimoi (1Co 9:27).
Were overthrown (katestrōthēsan). First aorist passive indicative of katastrōnnumi, 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 Num 14:16.