16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.



Ver. 16. Howbeit not all] Yet all fell in the wilderness save Joshua and Caleb. Good men are oft wrapped up in a common calamity. The righteous perisheth, Isa_57:1, so the world thinketh; "But whether they live, they live unto the Lord, or whether they die, they die unto the Lord," Rom_14:8. The good grain is cut down together with the tares, but to another and to a better purpose.