A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.
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And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
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Passages linked to Psalms 106:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 16:35-40 Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy, even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.” Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Hebrews 12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.
- Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 106:18 And a fire was kindled in their…
Psa 106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Ver. 18. And a fire was kindled in their company] It is both a just presage and desert of ruin not to be warned. Let seditious persons and schismatics take heed; for even our God also is a consuming fire, Heb 12:29.
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The flame burnt up the wicked] And among the rest Korah, as some conceive. Dathan and Abiram are stigmatized for their stubbornness, Num 26:9, as was afterwards Ahaz, 2Ch 28:22, and before them all Cain, Gen 4:15, and Lamech, Gen 4:24.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain In their company; in their associates or confederates, those…
In their company; in their associates or confederates, those wicked men, as he calls them in the next clause, to wit, Korah and his company, who were consumed by a fire from the Lord, Num 16:35, compared with Psa 106:1,2,16-19.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And a fire was kindled in their company,.... This…
And a fire was kindled in their company,.... This seems to be the company of Korah, or however a part of it, the two hundred and fifty men that had censers, and so were of the Levitical race, as Korah was; this fire came from the Lord out of heaven.
The flame burned up the wicked; the two hundred and fifty men with censers, Num 16:35, this was an emblem of that fire which shall consume those that hurt the witnesses; or of that vengeance of eternal fire which wicked men will suffer for ever.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. “A fire came out from Jehovah, and consumed…
18. “A fire came out from Jehovah, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense” (Num_16:35). The rebels are called “these wicked men” in Num_16:26.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And a fire was kindled in their company. (see…
And a fire was kindled in their company. (see Num_16:35, 40 26:10) The flame burned up the wicked. Korah and his "company" were more "wicked" than Dathan, Abiram, and their followers, since they had received a favour from God which ought to have satisfied them, (Num_16:9, Num_16:10) and since they ought to have been better instructed in the Law than ordinary Israelites. Hence Korah alone is mentioned in Jud_1:11.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 18. And a fire was kindled in their…
Ver. 18. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. The Levites who were with Korah perished by fire, which was a most fitting death for those who intruded into the priesthood, and so offered strange fire. God has more than one arrow in his quiver, the fire can consume those whom the earthquake spares. These terrible things in righteousness are mentioned here to show the obstinacy of the people in continuing to rebel against the Lord. Terrors were as much lost upon them as mercies had been; they could neither be drawn nor driven.
Psalms 106:19*
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