Numbers 16:21
“Separate yourselves from among this community that I may consume them immediately.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
In Context
20Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron:
Cross References
Genesis 19:13For we are about to destroy this place, because the accusations against it before Yahweh have become so loud that he has sent us to destroy it.”
Exodus 32:10Now then, do not try to stop me. My anger will burn hot against them, so I will destroy them. Then I will make a great nation from you.”
Numbers 14:12I will attack them with plague, disinherit them, and make from your own clan a nation that will be greater and mightier than they are.”
Numbers 16:45“Go away from in front of this community so that I may consume them immediately.” Then Moses and Aaron lay down with their faces to the ground.
Psalms 73:19How they become a wilderness in a moment! 1 They come to an end and are finished in awful terrors. 1
Jeremiah 5:16Its quiver is like an open tomb. They are all soldiers. 1
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 →