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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 16:23-34

We have here the determining of the controversy with Dathan and Abiram, who rebelled against Moses, as in the next paragraph the determining of the controversy with Korah and his company, who would be rivals with Aaron. It should seem that Dathan and Abiram had set up a spacious tabernacle in the midst of the tents of their families, where they kept court, met in council, and hung out their flag of defiance against Moses; it is here called the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, Num.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 16:35-40

We must now look back to the door of the tabernacle, where we left the pretenders to the priesthood with their censers in their hands ready to offer incense; and here we find, I. Vengeance taken on them, Num. 16:35. It is probable that when the earth opened in the camp to swallow up Dathan and Abiram a fire went out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men that offered incense, while Aaron that stood with them was preserved alive. This punishment was not indeed so new a thing as the former, for... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 16:41-50

Here is, I. A new rebellion raised the very next day against Moses and Aaron. Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and wonder, O earth! Was there ever such an instance of the incurable corruption of sinners? On the morrow (Num. 16:41) the body of the people mutinied. 1. Though they were so lately terrified by the sight of the punishment of the rebels. The shrieks of those sinking sinners, those sinners against their own souls, were yet sounding in their ears, the smell of the fire yet remained,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:31

And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these things ,.... As soon as he had finished his discourse, which was addressed to the congregation, and, according to Josephus F21 Antiqu. l. 4. c. 3. Sect. 2. , after a long prayer to God, which that writer gives at large; immediately so it was: that the ground clave asunder that was under them ; on which they stood, not from any natural cause, as by subterranean volcano, forcibly making their way and bursting the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:32

And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up ,.... Dathan and Abiram, their wives, sons, and little ones, that stood at the door of their tents with them, and all their goods, as follows: the earth, as if it was a living creature or a beast of prey, opened its mouth and swallowed them up, as such a creature does its prey: and their houses ; which may be meant both of their families or households, and of the tents they dwelt in, which were their houses; see Deuteronomy 1:6 , ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:33

They, and all that appertained unto them, went down alive into the pit ,.... The grave which the opening earth made for them, they and their families: and the earth closed upon them ; and covered them over; this it did of itself, as Aben Ezra remarks: this was a wonderful instance of almighty power, that it should open in such large fissures as to swallow up such a number of men, with their tents, goods, and cattle, and then close again so firmly, as not to have the least appearance... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:34

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them ,.... Or because of it, as Aben Ezra; their cry was so loud, their shrieks so dreadful and piercing, that the Israelites about them fled to get out of the sound of them, as well as for their own safety. The Targum of Jonathan not only represents their cry as terrible, but gives the words they expressed at it;"and all Israel that were round about them fled, because of the terror of their voice, when they cried and said, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:35

And there came out a fire from the Lord ,.... Flashes of lightning from the cloud in which he was: and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense ; not that it reduced them to ashes, but took away their lives, struck them dead at once, in like manner as Nadab and Abihu were, who though said to be devoured by the fire, yet their bodies remained, Leviticus 10:2 ; and is often the case of persons killed by lightning; though Josephus F1 Antiq. l. 4. c. 3. sect. 4. ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:36

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... Immediately after these men were consumed by fire from him; out of the same cloud from whence that proceeded, he spoke: saying : as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:37

Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest ,.... His eldest son, that was to succeed him as high priest, and who perhaps was upon the spot to see the issue of things; and who, rather than Aaron, is bid to do what follows, partly because Aaron was now officiating, burning incense, and that he might not be defiled with the dead bodies; and partly because it was more proper and decent for the son to do it than the father; and it may be also because it was for the further confirmation of the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 16:23-34

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 16:35-40

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 16:41-50

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 16:37

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