Numbers 16:21
“Separate yourselves from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.”
Berean Standard Bible
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 19:13because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
Exodus 32:10Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
Numbers 14:12I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
Numbers 16:45“Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron fell facedown.
Psalms 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
Jeremiah 5:16Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.
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 →