Numbers 16:32
And opening its mouth, it devoured them with their tabernacles and their entire substance.
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31Therefore, as soon as he had ceased to speak, the earth broke open under their feet.
Cross References
Numbers 4:18“Do not be willing to lose the people of Kohath from the midst of the Levites.
Numbers 16:30But if the Lord accomplishes something new, so that the earth opens its mouth and swallows them whole, along with everything that belongs to them, and they descend alive into the underworld, then you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.”
Numbers 26:11so that, when Korah perished, his sons did not perish.
Deuteronomy 11:6and to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, who was the son of Reuben, those whom the earth, opening its mouth, engulfed with their households and tents, and with their entire substance which they had in the midst of Israel.
1 Chronicles 6:37the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
Psalms 85:1A Prayer of David himself. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear me. For I am needy and poor.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 16:24-35
23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. 25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. 26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram… Read the whole commentary →