Numbers 16:3
They assembled themselves together to confront Moses and Aaron. They said to them, “You have gone too far! All the community is set apart, every one of them, and Yahweh is among them. Why do you lift up yourselves above the rest of Yahweh's community?”
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4When Moses heard that, he lay facedown.
Cross References
Exodus 29:45I will live among the Israelites and will be their God.
Numbers 12:1Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married.
Numbers 14:14They will tell it to this land's inhabitants. They have heard that you, Yahweh, are present with this people, because you are seen face to face. Your cloud stands over our people. You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
Numbers 16:11That is why you and all your group have gathered together against Yahweh. So why are you complaining about Aaron, who obeys Yahweh?”
Numbers 35:34So you must not defile the land in which you live because I am living in it. I, Yahweh, live among the people of Israel.'”
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; 1 the Lord is among them in the holy place, as at Sinai. 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 →