Numbers 16:12

Moses [Drawn out] sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!

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In The King James Version

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:

In Context

11Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Adonai! What is Aaron [Light-bringer] that you murmur against him?”

13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us? (2)

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:5The people will be oppressed, 2 everyone by another, 2 and everyone by his neighbor. 1 The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, 2 and the base against the honorable. 1

Matthew Henry on Numbers 16:2-12

Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are… Read the whole commentary →

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