The generation of the Flood has no share in the World to Come, nor will they stand for judgment, as it is stated: My spirit shall not contend evermore concerning man —- neither judgment nor spirit.  The generation of the Dispersal has no share in the World to Come, as it is stated: And HASHEM dispersed them from across the face of the whole earth —- Hashem dispersed them in this world; and from there HASHEM scattered them from the World to Come.  The people of Sodom have no share in the World to Come, as it is stated: Now the people of Sodom were wicked and sinful toward HASHEM ex-ceedingly —- wicked in this world, and sinful in the World to Come. However, they will stand for judgment. R’ Nechemiah says: Neither these nor those will stand for judgment, as it is stated: Therefore the wicked shall not stand for judgment nor the sinful in the congregation of the righteous —- Therefore the wicked shall not stand for judgment: this is the generation of the Flood; nor the sinful in the congregation of the righteous: these are the people of Sodom. They said to him: They shall not stand in the congregation of the righteous but they shall stand in the congregation of the sinful.  The spies have no share in the World to Come, as it is stated: And the men who brought out an evil report about the land died in a plague before HASHEM. They died —- in this world; in a plague —- in the World to Come.  The generation of the wilderness has no share in the World to Come, and they will not stand for judgment, as it is stated: In this wilderness they shall be con-sumed and there they shall die; [these are] the words of R’ Akiva. R’ Eliezer says: Concerning them it is stated: Gather to Me My devout ones; those who sealed a covenant with Me by sacrifice.  The congregation of Korach is not destined to arise, as it is stated: And the land covered them over —- in this world; and they were lost from amidst the congregation —- in the World to Come; [these are] the words of R’ Akiva. R’ Eliezer says: Concerning them it is stated: HASHEM kills and brings to life; he lowers into the grave and brings up.  The Ten Tribes are not destined to return, as it is stated: And he sent them to another land as of this day —- just as this day goes never to return, so they go never to return; [these are] the words of R’ Akiva. R’ Eliezer says: Just as the day darkens and [then] becomes light, so the Ten Tribes, for whom it became dark, shall have a future that becomes light for them.