Numbers 16:32

And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

31And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:

33And they went down alive into hell the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:18Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites:

Numbers 16:30But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.

Numbers 26:11That when Core perished, his sons did not perish.

Deuteronomy 11:6And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.

1 Chronicles 6:37The son of Thahath, the son of Asir, the son or Abiasaph, the son of Core,

Psalms 85:1Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.

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 →

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