Numbers 16:22
and they fall on their faces, and say, “God, God of the spirits of all flesh—one man sins, and are You angry against all the congregation?”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21“Be separated from the midst of this congregation, and I consume them in a moment”;
23And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham draws near and says, “Do You also consume righteous with wicked?
Genesis 18:32And he says, “Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: perhaps there are found there ten?” And He says, “I do not destroy [it], because of the ten.”
Numbers 14:5And Moses falls—Aaron also—on their faces, before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
Numbers 16:45“Get up from the midst of this congregation, and I consume them in a moment”; and they fall on their faces,
Joshua 7:1And the sons of Israel commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, takes from the devoted thing, and the anger of YHWH burns against the sons of Israel.
2 Samuel 24:1And the anger of YHWH adds to burn against Israel, and [an adversary] moves David about them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”
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 →