Jerusalem Remains Unrepentant

⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.^(A)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples^(B) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. ⁷ Do not be idolaters,^(C) as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”^{[a](D) 8} We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.^{(E) 9} We should not test Christ,^[b](F) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.^{(G) 10} And do not grumble, as some of them did^(H)—and were killed^(I) by the destroying angel.^(J)

¹¹ These things happened to them as examples^(K) and were written down as warnings for us,^(L) on whom the culmination of the ages has come.^(M)

⁶ if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,^(A) and made them an example^(B) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;^(C)