Numbers 16:21
Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
In Context
20And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
Cross References
Genesis 19:13For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.
Exodus 32:10Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.
Numbers 14:12I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
Numbers 16:45Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.
Psalms 73:19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
Jeremiah 5:16Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 16:13-23
12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us? 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up. 15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto… Read the whole commentary →