Bible Strands
Jude 1:5
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jude writes to a Christian audience to warn them about ungodly individuals who have infiltrated their community and deny Christ. He invokes a past historical event to ground his urgent warning in demonstrated divine action.
The words — εἰδότας (eidotas) means knowing, and Ὑπομνῆσαι (Hupomnēsai) means to remind, structuring the statement as an appeal to established knowledge rather than a new revelation.
The thread — The destruction of the Exodus generation for unbelief runs through Numbers 26:64, Hebrews 3:16, and 1 Corinthians 10:1, establishing a repeated scriptural pattern of judgment following deliverance.
Why it lands — The verse requires readers to accept that past divine judgment confirms present warnings, demanding sober attention to the consequences of unbelief without softening the text.
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The Greek words
King James Version
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Cross-references
- Numbers 26:64 Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Hebrews 3:16 For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
- 1 Corinthians 10:1 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
- Psalms 106:26 So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
- Numbers 14:22 not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
- Deuteronomy 2:15 Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
- Romans 15:15 However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me
- 2 Peter 1:12 Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.
- 2 Peter 3:1 Beloved, this is now my second letter to you. Both of them are reminders to stir you to wholesome thinking