All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
Parallel Translations
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All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
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And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
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And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: 'Lest the earth swallow us up.'
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Passages linked to Numbers 16:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 17:12-13 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone! Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”
- Isaiah 33:3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
- Zechariah 14:5 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 from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
- Revelation 6:15-17 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 16:34 And all Israel that [were] round about…
Num 16:34 And all Israel that [were] round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also].
Ver. 34. Lest the earth swallow us up also.] Let the destruction of others be a terror to us, that we may wash our feet in the blood of the wicked. {Psa 52:6} But he that is swallowed up with earth, as Korah, his ears stopped, his heart stuffed with earth, shall have earth enough when he dies, but of heaven little enough.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all Israel that were round about them fled…
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them,.... Or because of it, as Aben Ezra; their cry was so loud, their shrieks so dreadful and piercing, that the Israelites about them fled to get out of the sound of them, as well as for their own safety. The Targum of Jonathan not only represents their cry as terrible, but gives the words they expressed at it;"and all Israel that were round about them fled, because of the terror of their voice, when they cried and said, the Lord is righteous and his judgments truth, and truth are the words of Moses his servant, but we are wicked who have rebelled against him:"
for they said, lest the earth swallow us up also; which they might fear, since they had provoked the Lord, by associating with these men, and countenancing them by their presence, as they had done; who would have consumed them in a moment at first, had it not been for the intercession of Moses and Aaron.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 34. All Israel… fled — By separating themselves from…
34. All Israel… fled — By separating themselves from the tents of the doomed men at the command of Moses they had evinced some faith in the theocracy as administered by Moses. Now they instinctively flee from destruction.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain At the cry of them. "at the noise of…
At the cry of them. "at the noise of them;" at the mingled sound of their shrieks and of the natural convulsion amidst which they disappeared.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 16:34-35 The 250 Israelite leaders who attempted to offer…
16:34-35 The 250 Israelite leaders who attempted to offer incense shared the fate of Nadab and Abihu (Lev 10:1-2) and of those who complained about the hardships of the wilderness (Num 11:1; cp. 2 Kgs 1:10).
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