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. So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly. All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!” Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
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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.
So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
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And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
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And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground did cleave asunder that was under them.
And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: 'Lest the earth swallow us up.'
And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
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- Leviticus 10:2 (v35) Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
- Numbers 26:10 (v35) and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred…
- Numbers 26:11 (v32) Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.
- Psalms 106:17 (v32) The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
- Psalms 106:18 (v35) A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.
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- Numbers 11:1-3 (v35) The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and…
- Revelation 12:16 (v32) The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
- Numbers 16:17 (vv32, 35) Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and…
- Numbers 27:3 (vv31–32) “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of…
- Deuteronomy 11:6 (vv31–32) and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their…
- Numbers 16:2 (v35) They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men…
- 1 Chronicles 6:22 (v32) The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
- Psalms 106:17-18 (v31) The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the…
- Isaiah 5:14 (v32) Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who…
- Numbers 16:30 (v32) 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…
- Numbers 17:12-13 (v34) The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone! Everyone who keeps approaching…
- Numbers 26:10-11 (v31) and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred…
- 1 Chronicles 6:37 (v32) the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
- Psalms 9:15 (v33) The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
- Psalms 55:23 (v33) But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I…
- Psalms 69:15 (v33) Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
- Psalms 84:1 (v32) How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
- Psalms 85:1 (v32) Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
- Psalms 88:1 (v32) Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
- Psalms 143:7 (v33) Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
- Isaiah 14:9 (v33) Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the…
- Isaiah 14:15 (v33) Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
- Isaiah 33:3 (v34) At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
- Ezekiel 32:18 (v33) “Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of…
- Ezekiel 32:30 (v33) “There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the…
- Zechariah 14:5 (v34) You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled…
- Jude 1:11 (v33) Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
- Revelation 6:15-17 (v34) The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the…
- Genesis 4:11 (v32) Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv31–35 Num 16:31 And it came to pass, as he…
Num 16:31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that [was] under them:
Ver. 31. As he had made an end of speaking.] Dictum factum; so it is still. {Joh 20:23} Vengeance is every whit as ready in God’s hands, as in his ministers’ mouths. {2Co 10:6}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv32, 33, 35 i.e. All his family which were there, women, children,…
i.e. All his family which were there, women, children, and servants; but his sons, who were spared Num 26:11,58 1Ch 6:22,37 were absent, either upon some service of the tabernacle, or upon some other occasion; God so ordering it by his providence, either because they disliked their father’s act, or upon Moses’s intercession for them, or for some other reason. This expression may seem to intimate that Korah himself was not here, but that he continued with his two hundred and fifty men before the Lord Num 16:18,19, where they were waiting for God’s decision of the controversy; nor is it probable that their chief captain would desert them, and leave them standing there without a head, especially when Aaron, his great adversary, abode there still, and did not go with Moses to Dathan, &c., Num 16:25. And Korah may seem to have been consumed with those two hundred and fifty, Num 16:35, though he be not mentioned there, but is easily understood by comparing that verse with Num 16:16-18, and from the nature of the thing itself, there being no cause of doubt but that destruction which befell the accessaries did much more involve the principal. And so much is intimated Num 16:40, that no stranger come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not as Korah, and as his company, i.e. destroyed, as they were, by fire from the Lord. And when the psalmist relates this history, Psa 106, the earth’s swallowing them up is confined to Dathan and Abiram, Num 16:17; and for all the rest of that conspiracy, it is added, Num 16:18, and a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the wicked. As for Num 26:10, which seems to oppose this opinion, we shall see more on that place, if God permit.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain On v35 We must now look back to the door of…
We must now look back to the door of the tabernacle, where we left the pretenders to the priesthood with their censers in their hands ready to offer incense; and here we find,
I. Vengeance taken on them, Num 16:35. It is probable that when the earth opened in the camp to swallow up Dathan and Abiram a fire went out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men that offered incense, while Aaron that stood with them was preserved alive. This punishment was not indeed so new a thing as the former, for Nadab and Abihu thus died; but it was not less strange or dreadful, and in it it appeared, 1. That our God is a consuming fire. Is thunder a sensible indication of the terror of his voice? Lightning is also the power of his hand. We must see in this his fiery indignation which devours the adversaries, and infer from it what a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God, Heb 10:27-31. 2. That it is at our peril if we meddle with that which does not belong to us. God is jealous of the honour of his own institutions, and will not have them invaded. It is most probable that Korah himself was consumed with those 250 that presumed to offer incense; for the priesthood was the thing he aimed at, and therefore we have reason to think that he would not quit his post at the door of the tabernacle. But, behold, those are made sacrifices to the justice of God who flattered themselves with the hopes of being priests. Had they been content with their office as Levites, which was sacred and honourable, and better than they deserved, they might have lived and died with joy and reputation; but, like the angels that sinned, leaving their first estate, and aiming at the honours that were not appointed them, they were thrust down to Hades, their censers struck out of their hands, and their breath out of their bodies, by a burning which typified the vengeance of eternal fire.
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II. Care is taken to perpetuate the remembrance of this vengeance. No mention is made of the taking up of their carcases: the scripture leaves them as dung upon the face of the earth; but orders are given about their censers, 1. That they be secured, because they are hallowed. Eleazar is charged with this, Num 16:37. Those invaders of the priesthood had proceeded so far, by the divine patience and submission, as to kindle their incense with fire from off the altar, which they were suffered to use by way of experiment: but, as soon as they had kindled their fire, God kindled another, which put a fatal final period to their pretensions; now Eleazar is ordered to scatter the fire, with the incense that was kindled with it, in some unclean place without the camp, to signify God's abhorrence of their offering as a polluted thing: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. But he is to gather up the censers out of the mingled burning, God's fire and theirs, because they are hallowed. Having been once put to a holy use, and that by God's own order (though only for trial), they must not return to common service; so some understand it: rather, they are devoted, they are an anathema; and therefore, as all devoted things, they must be made some way or other serviceable to the glory of God. 2. That they be used in the service of the sanctuary, not as censers, which would rather have put honour upon the usurpers whose disgrace was intended; nor was there occasion for brazen censers, the golden altar was served with golden ones; but they must be beaten into broad plates for a covering of the brazen altar, Num 16:38-40. These pretenders thought to have ruined the altar, by laying the priesthood in common again; but to show that Aaron's office was so far from being shaken by their impotent malice that it was rather confirmed by it, their censers, which offered to rival his, were used both for the adorning and for the preserving of the altar at which he ministered. Yet this was not all; this covering of the altar must be a memorial to the children of Israel, throughout their generations, of this great event. Though there was so much in it astonishing, and though Moses was to record it in his history, yet there was danger of its being forgotten in process of time; impressions that seem deep are not always durable; therefore it was necessary to appoint this record of the judgment, that the Levites who attended this altar, and had their inferior services appointed them, might learn to keep within their bounds, and be afraid of transgressing them, lest they should be made like Korah and his company, who were Levites, and would have been priests. These censers were preserved in terrorem, that others might hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously. Thus God has provided that his wonderful works, both in mercy and judgment, should be had in everlasting remembrance, that the end of them may be answered, and they may serve for instruction and admonition to those on whom the ends of the world are come.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv31–35 And it came to pass, as he had made…
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these things,.... As soon as he had finished his discourse, which was addressed to the congregation, and, according to Josephus (u), after a long prayer to God, which that writer gives at large; immediately so it was:
that the ground clave asunder that was under them; on which they stood, not from any natural cause, as by subterranean volcano, forcibly making their way and bursting the earth, and so getting vent, which has been thought to be the cause of earthquakes; but this was by the immediate hand and almighty power of God, and came to pass just as Moses suggested it would, and as soon as he had uttered his words, which made it the more observable.
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(u) Antiqu. l. 4. c. 3. Sect. 2.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv32, 33, 35 All that appertained unto Korah - That is, all…
All that appertained unto Korah - That is, all his family which were there, women, children, and servants; but his sons, who were spared, chap. xxvi, 11, 58; 1 Chron. vi, 22, 37, were absent either upon some service of the tabernacle, or upon some other occasion, God so ordering it by his providence either because they disliked their fathers act, or upon Moses's intercession for them. This expression may intimate, that Korah himself was not here, but that he continued with his two hundred and fifty men before the Lord, where they were waiting for God's decision of the controversy. Nor is it probable that their chief captain would desert them, and leave them standing there without an head, especially, when Aaron his great adversary, abode there still, and did not go with Moses to Dathan. And Korah may seem to have been consumed with those two hundred and fifty. And so much is intimated, ver. 40, that no stranger come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not as Korah, and as his company, that is, destroyed, as they were, by fire from the Lord. And when the Psalmist relates this history, Psalm cvi, 17-18, the earth's swallowing them up is confined to Dathan and Abiram, Psalm cvi, 17, and for all the rest of that conspiracy it is added, Psalm cvi, 18. And a fire was kindled in their company, the flame burnt up the wicked.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v33 Verse 33. They, and all that appertained to them]…
Verse 33. They, and all that appertained to them] Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and all that appertained to their respective families, went down into the pit caused by this supernatural earthquake; while the fire from the Lord consumed the 250 men that bare censers. Thus there were two distinct punishments, the pit and the fire, for the two divisions of these rebels.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv32, 35 Num 16:32. All that appertained unto Korah — That…
Num 16:32. All that appertained unto Korah — That is, all his family that were there, women, children, and servants; but his sons, who were spared, (Num 26:11; Num 26:58; 1Ch 6:22; 1Ch 6:37,) were absent either upon some service of the tabernacle, or upon some other occasion, God so ordering it by his providence, either because they disliked their father’s act, or upon Moses’s intercession for them. Korah himself, it seems, was not here, but continued with his two hundred and fifty men before the Lord, where they were waiting for God’s decision of the controversy. Indeed, it is not probable that their chief captain would desert them, and leave them standing there without a head, especially when Aaron, his great adversary, abode there still, and did not go with Moses to Dathan. Korah was probably consumed with those two hundred and fifty, as seems to be intimated, Num 16:40. Accordingly, when the psalmist relates this history, (Psalms 106.,) the earth’s swallowing them up is confined to Dathan and Abiram, (Num 16:17,) and for all the rest of that conspiracy, it is added, (Num 16:18,) And a fire was kindled in their company, the flame burned up the wicked.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv32, 35 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 vv32, 33, 35 Tents. Hebrew adds, "all those who belonged to (or…
Tents. Hebrew adds, "all those who belonged to (or sided with) Core, and all their riches." Moses informs us, (chap. xxvi. 10,) how some of Core’s children were miraculously preserved. Their descendants were appointed by David to sing and to guard the doors of the temple, 1 Paralipomenon ix. 19. (Calmet) --- Samuel was of the same family, 1 Paralipomenon vi. 33. (Tirinus)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v35 there came out a fire from the Lord--that is,…
there came out a fire from the Lord--that is, from the cloud. This seems to describe the destruction of Korah and those Levites who with him aspired to the functions of the priesthood. (See Num 26:11, Num 26:58; Ch1 6:22, Ch1 6:37).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv31–35 31. The ground clave asunder — There may have…
31. The ground clave asunder — There may have been a natural cause for this event; but its occurrence according to prediction in vindication of God’s appointed priesthood and in vengeance upon his foes betokens the supernatural.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v35 35. The sin of Korah’s company was the same…
35. The sin of Korah’s company was the same as that of Nadab and Abihu (Lev_10:1-2), and their punishment was the same. ‘The gainsaying of Korah’ is referred to as a typical sin in Judges 11.
36–40 [Heb. 17:1–15]. The fire-pans were made into a covering of the altar, as a memorial of the incident. As Num_16:40 shews, this section is written from the later point of view found in Num_16:8-11; Num_16:16-17. The writer who inserted them took the test of the fire-pans as proving the superiority of priests to Levites, not of Levites to laymen. (In the Heb. Bible Num_16:36 forms the beginning of ch. 17)
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv32, 35 (32) And the earth opened her mouth . .…
(32) And the earth opened her mouth . . . —Had this verse stood alone it might have been inferred that Korah and his family shared the fate of Dathan and Abiram and their families and households. in regard to the sons of Korah, however, there is direct evidence that they did not share in the punishment of Dathan and Abiram (see Note on Num_16:27): and in regard to Korah there is ground for the belief that he perished by fire with the 250 men who offered incense with him. It is true, indeed, that in Num_26:10 Korah is mentioned in conjunction with Dathan and Abiram (see Note in loc.); but in the other places in which reference is made to the conspiracy, the fate of the chief conspirators is separated. Thus, in Deu_11:6 we read only of what God did unto Dathan and Abiram and their households and tents; and in Psa_106:17 we read that “The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram,” whilst in the following verse it is added that “The flame burned up the wicked.” If Korah’s tent remained in its appointed place amongst the Kohathites, it may reasonably be supposed that the chasm did not extend beyond the tents of Dathan and Abiram; or if Korah had pitched a tent for himself adjoining the tents of Dathan and Abiram, it may be inferred that those only of his household remained in it who shared in the conspiracy, and that his sons remained amongst the other Kohathites, or withdrew with the rest of the congregation at the command of Moses. It is most natural to suppose that Korah was at this time before the door of the Tabernacle, with the 250 men of his company who had presumed to offer incense, and that he shared their doom. Ibn Ezra observes that in the song of the Red Sea there is no mention made of the drowning of Pharaoh, but only of his chariots and hosts; whilst in Psa_136:15 we read that Pharaoh and his host were overthrown in the Red Sea.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv31, 32, 34, 35 The ground clave asunder that was under them. As…
The ground clave asunder that was under them. As it sometimes does during an earthquake. In this case, however, the event was predicted, and wholly supernatural. The sequence of the narrative would lead us to suppose that the earth opened beneath the tents of Dathan and Abiram in the camp of Reuben. It is difficult to think of the gulf as extending so far as to involve the tent of Korah in the Kohathite lines in the same destruction, while there is nothing to suggest the idea that the earth opened in more than one place. It is true that the camps of the Reubenites and of the Kohathites were more or less contiguous; but when it is remembered that there were 46, 500 adult males in the former, and 8600 males in the latter, and that a broad space must have been left between the two lines of encampment, it is obviously improbable that Korah"s tent was in a practical sense "near" to those of Dathan and Abiram, unless indeed he had purposely removed it in order to be under the protection of his Reubenite partisans. It is very observable that not a word is said here as to the fate of Korah himself. It is implied in verse 40 that he had perished, and it is apparently asserted in Num_26:10 that he was swallowed up with Dathan and Abiram (see the note there). On the other hand, Deu_11:6 Psa_106:17 speak of the engulfing of the other two without any mention of Korah himself sharing their fate; and while "all the men that appertained unto Korah" perished, his own sons did not. (Num_26:11) On these grounds it is held by most commentators that Korah died by fire among those who offered incense (verse 35). This, however, is untenable, because "the two hundred and fifty men who offered incense" are distinctly mentioned as having been his partisans (verse 2), and are always counted exclusive of Korah himself. On the whole, while it is certain that the narrative is very obscure, and the question very doubtful, it seems most agreeable to all the testimonies of Holy Scripture to conclude
1. That Korah had left his own place, and had some sort of dwelling (mischan) either in common with Dathan and Abiram, or hard by their tents.
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2. That the earth opened and swallowed up the mishcan, of Korah, and the tents of Dathan and Abiram.
3. That Korah"s men (see next verse) and their property were swallowed up with his mishcan, and (as far as we can tell) Korah himself also. If this be correct, then the much disputed heading of the chapter in the A.V will be right after all.
Vers. 31-33. The destructiveness of sin.
Some things are very much dreaded because so destructive. E.g., locusts, war, pestilence. But there is nothing so destructive as sin. As "no man liveth," so no man sinneth, "to himself." Of Korah, as of Achan or of other transgressors, it may be said, "That man perished not alone in his iniquity". (Jos_22:20) The destructive effects of sin are twofold
I PERSONAL,
II SOCIAL.
I PERSONAL: on the sinner himself, as in the case of Korah the Kohathite, honoured as one of the ministers of God"s ark. Illustration Infection, taken unawares, may not be suspected by friends, hardly by the victim; but its effects (fever, eruption, &c.) will be seen by and by. Sin cannot always be kept secret. ; (Isa_59:12 Jam_1:15) "Evil shall slay the wicked." If the consequences are not as fatal as in Korah"s case, moral destruction is going on. As Alpine granite may be reduced by frost and damp to a kind of mould, so sin some sins especially seems to break up the moral nature and reduce it to ruins. From the personal consequences of sin the destroyer we can only be delivered by Christ the Savior. (Tit_2:14)
II SOCIAL: on others. In the case of Korah and his conspirators, sin was fatal to their families. So perhaps in the case of Achan; (Jos_7:24-26 Jos_22:20) if not, how terrible for them to see the husband, the father, killed, and to know that he had caused the loss of thirty-six men at Ai! "Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost." We cannot sin with impunity to our family any more than Adam did. Sin propagates sin. It involves others, directly or indirectly, in its fatal consequences. Illustration King Saul, and the catastrophe to both family and nation at Gilboa. Unrighteous statesmen. Men of high social position who are immoral or infidel. Each sinner a center of contagion. (Ecc_9:18) The fate of the children of Korah"s company a warning to sinful parents. The children of the godless may be expected to become the parents of godless children, and thus the evil may be perpetuated from generation to generation. Mournful epitaph for a sinner"s grave: "That man perished not alone in his iniquity." "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. P. (Rom_5:20, 21 8:2, 3)
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The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them
Moses speaks of the earth as if it were alive, and the hole that the people fell into as if it were the earth's mouth. AT: "The earth opened up like a large mouth, and they fell into it and were buried in it" or "There was a giant hole in the ground, and they fell into it and were buried in it" (See: Metaphor)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv31, 34 16:31-33 Korah’s sons did not die at this time…
16:31-33 Korah’s sons did not die at this time (26:10-11). In fact, his descendants eventually became gatekeepers and musicians in the Temple (1 Chr 9:19, 31; 26:19; 2 Chr 20:19; cp. the titles of Pss 42; 45–49; 84–85; 87–88).
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