Numbers 16:33
So they and all that they possessed went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed over them, and they perished from among the community.
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34All Israel around them fled from their cries. They exclaimed, “The earth may swallow us up also!”
Cross References
Psalms 9:15The nations have sunk down into the pit that they made; 1 their feet are caught in the net that they hid. 1
Psalms 55:23But you, God, will bring the wicked down into the pit of destruction; 1 bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not live even half as long as others, 1 but I will trust in you.
Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, Yahweh, because my spirit faints. 1 Do not hide your face from me, 1 or I will become like those who go down into the pit. 1
Isaiah 14:15Yet you are now brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. 1
Ezekiel 32:30The princes of the north are there—all of them and all the Sidonians who went down with the ones who had been pierced. They were powerful and made others to be afraid, but now they are there in shame, uncircumcised with those who were pierced by the sword. They carry their own shame, together with the ones going down to the pit.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 16:24-35
23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. 25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. 26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram… Read the whole commentary →