Numbers 16:21
“Be separated from the midst of this congregation, and I consume them in a moment”;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
In Context
20And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 19:13for we are destroying this place, for their cry has been great [before] the face of YHWH, and YHWH does send us to destroy it.”
Exodus 32:10and now, leave Me alone, and My anger burns against them, and I consume them, and I make you become a great nation.”
Numbers 14:12I strike it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make you become a nation greater and mightier than it.”
Numbers 16:45“Get up from the midst of this congregation, and I consume them in a moment”; and they fall on their faces,
Psalms 73:19How they have become a desolation as in a moment, || They have been ended—consumed from terrors.
Jeremiah 5:16Its quiver [is] as an open tomb, || All of them—mighty ones.
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 →