Numbers 16:12

Then Moses called for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not 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

11That is why you and all your group have gathered together against Yahweh. So why are you complaining about Aaron, who obeys Yahweh?”

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? Now you want to make yourself ruler over us!

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:5The people will be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; 1 the child will insult the elderly, and the degraded will challenge the honorable. 1

Jude 1:8Yet in the same way, these dreamers also pollute their bodies. They reject authority, and they say slanderous things against the glorious ones.

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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