Numbers 16:12

Then sent Moses, to call for Dathan and for Abiram sons of Eliab,—and they said We will not come up:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

11Wherefore thou and all thine assembly, are conspiring against Yahweh,—But Aaron, what is he, that ye should murmur against him?

13Was it, a small thing, that thou didst bring us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the desert but thou must, continue even to lord it, over us?

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:5And the people will, tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend,—And they will rage The boy against, the elder, And the despised, against, the honourable,

Jude 1:8In like manner, nevertheless, even these, in their dreamings, flesh indeed defile, while lordship they set aside, and dignities they defame.

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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