Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me. But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv28, 30 I have not forged them of mine own brain.
I have not forged them of mine own brain.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv28–32 Num 16:28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know…
Num 16:28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of mine own mind.
Ver. 28. Hereby ye shall know.] Thus he engageth the truth and honour of his office upon a miracle. But now he that expects a miracle, is himself a miracle, saith Augustine. Let Papists brag of their lying wonders. {2Th 2:9} We dislike not altogether that observation of Gretser the Jesuit, Tam sterilis et deserta est Lutherana et Calviniana secta, ut diabolus ne dignetur quidem per eam aliquid fallacium et umbratilium prodigiorum aggredi, saltem frequenter et palam. So dull and dry is the Lutheran and Calvinian sect, that the devil deigns not to work any, or not many miracles, among them, as he doth among the Catholics.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv28, 29, 30, 32 All these works, to wit, which I have done,…
All these works, to wit, which I have done, and for which I am traduced by these and such like wicked men, as the bringing of the people out of Egypt; the conducting of them through, and the keeping of them so long in, the wilderness; the exercising of power and authority among and over them; giving of laws to them, as about other things, so concerning the priesthood, which is the ground of the present quarrel; and, that which vexeth them most, that when they were upon the borders of Canaan, and ready to enter in, I should cause them to go back into this vast howling wilderness, and fix them there for forty years.
Of mine own mind; by pretending or usurping an authority which God gave me not; by feigning words or messages from God to establish my own inventions, and to comply with my own will or lust or interest, as I am now accused to have done. For this phrase, see Num 24:13; Eze 13:2.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv28–32 And Moses said, hereby ye shall know that the…
And Moses said, hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works,.... To bring the people of Israel out of Egypt, to exchange the firstborn for the Levites, to make Aaron and his sons priests, to give the Levites to them, and to set Elizaphan over the Kohathites, things which these men found fault with, and questioned his authority for doing them:
for I have not done them of my own mind; or "not out of my heart" (q); he had not devised them himself, and done them of his own head, and in any arbitrary way, without the will of God or any authority from him, as these men suggested.
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(q) "quod non de corde meo", Pagninus, Montanus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv28, 29, 32 All these works - As the bringing of the…
All these works - As the bringing of the people out of Egypt; the conducting of them through the wilderness; the exercising authority among them; and giving laws to them concerning the priesthood.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v30 Verse 30. If the Lord make a new thing]…
Verse 30. If the Lord make a new thing] ואם בריאה יברא יהוה veim beriah yibra Yehovah, and if Jehovah should create a creation, i. e., do such a thing as was never done before.
And they go down quick into the pit] שאלה sheolah, a proof, among many others, that שאל sheol, signifies here a chasm or pit of the earth, and not the place called hell; for it would be absurd to suppose that their houses had gone to hell; and it would be wicked to imagine that their little innocent children had gone thither, though God was pleased to destroy their lives with those of their iniquitous fathers.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv28, 29, 32 Num 16:28. All these works — As the bringing…
Num 16:28. All these works — As the bringing of the people out of Egypt; the conducting of them through the wilderness; the exercising authority among them; and giving laws to them concerning the priesthood.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v32 All the men ... - Not his sons (see…
All the men ... - Not his sons (see Num 26:11), but all belonging to him who had associated themselves with him in this rebellion.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv30, 32 Hell. See Psalm liv. 16., and Proverbs i. 12.…
Hell. See Psalm liv. 16., and Proverbs i. 12. "They were consigned to the tomb before they were dead," (St. Optatus, B. i.,) while their impenitent souls were buried in hell. The souls of their infant children, which had no share in the rebellion, might be exempted from the latter part of their punishment. (Calmet) --- If some have the rashness to blame the severity of this judgment of God, let them shew the disparity between it and the various other accidents occasioned by earthquakes, &c., which involve millions of such "smiling infants" in destruction; or, if they do not infer from these misfortunes, that the laws of nature are unjust; neither ought they to conclude that the religion, delivered by God to Moses, was an imposture, or that the Jewish legislator was cruel. He continued a silent spectator of this transaction, which he was informed by the Spirit would surely take place, and could not be averted by his intercession, which had before rescued the less guilty multitude, ver. 22. (Haydock) --- "They descend into hell alive; that is, feeling their own perdition, who, imitating Core,....separate from the Church, and presently fall into heresy." (St. Augustine, ep. 93.)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v28 Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord…
Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works--The awful catastrophe of the earthquake which, as predicted by Moses, swallowed up those impious rebels in a living tomb, gave the divine attestation to the mission of Moses and struck the spectators with solemn awe.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv28–32 28. Of mine own mind — It was not…
28. Of mine own mind — It was not from self-seeking that I took upon me the government, nor was Aaron or his family appointed to the priesthood merely out of private affection.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v30 30. into the pit] into Sheol, the place of…
30. into the pit] into Sheol, the place of departed human beings. It was thought of as lying beneath the earth, or deep within it.
We are probably to think of the catastrophe as taking place in the form of an earthquake; or possibly the tradition may have grown up as a popular explanation of some deep fissure or chasm in the rocks.
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32b. and all the men … their goods] This half verse is the work of the compiler who combined the narratives. Korah’s company of adherents (‘the men that appertained unto K.’) were not swallowed up in the earth; they died afterwards by fire (Num_16:35).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv28, 30, 32 (28) To do all these works.—i.e., to bring the…
(28) To do all these works.—i.e., to bring the people out of the land of Egypt, to exchange the first-born for the Levites, to consecrate Aaron and his sons to the priesthood, and generally to declare the will of the Lord to the people.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv28–32 Nor I have not done them of mine own…
Nor I have not done them of mine own mind. Literally, "that not of my heart", yBLimi aloAyKi. Septuagint, oti ouk ap emautou .
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv28, 31 By this you will know
By this you will know
Here "this" refers to what Moses will say next.
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the earth opens its mouth and swallows them
Moses speaks as if the earth were alive and the opening in the ground into which these people would fall were a large mouth that would eat them. AT: "and they fall into it and are buried underneath the ground" (See: Simile)
translationWords
know
Yahweh
send
works
die
create
family
life
Hades
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv28, 31 16:28-30 Moses had faith that God would enact his…
16:28-30 Moses had faith that God would enact his own justice, and God did so (16:31-35; cp. 1 Kgs 18:18-40). • into the grave: Sheol was the place of the dead (see 1 Sam 2:6; 2 Sam 22:5-6; Job 3:20-22; Ps 16:10; Acts 2:27-33; 1 Cor 15:15; Rev 20:13-14).
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