But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
But - though they had so many spiritual privileges.
Many of them - rather, 'the majority of them.' All except Joshua and Caleb of the first generation.
God - whose judgment alone is valid.
Not - in the Greek emphatically beginning the sentence: "Not," as one might naturally expect, 'with the more part of them was,' etc. (Hebrews 3:14-17).
For - the event shows they pleased not God. Overthrown, х katestrootheesan (G2693)] - strewn in heaps.
In the wilderness - far from the land of promise.