Numbers 16:1, The rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; Numbers 16:23, Moses separates the people from the rebels’ tents; Numbers 16:31, The earth swallows up Korah, and a fire consumes others; Numbers 16:36, The censers are reserved to holy use; Numbers 16:41, Fourteen thousand and seven hundred are slain by a plague, for murmuring against Moses and Aaron; Numbers 16:46, Aaron by incense stays the plague.
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Numbers 16 — OverviewNumbers 16 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe date of the history contained in this chapter is altogether
uncertain. Probably these mutinies happened after their removal back
again from Kadesh-barnea, when they were fixed (if I may so speak) for
their…Numbers 16 — OverviewNumbers 16 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter gives an account of a sedition of Korah and others against Moses and Aaron, Nu 16:1, with whom Moses expostulates, and shows the unreasonableness of their clamour against Aaron, Nu 16:5; sends for Dathan…Numbers 16:1-11Numbers 16:1-11 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is, I. An account of the rebels, who and what they were, not, as
formerly, the mixed multitude and the dregs of the people, who are
therefore never named, but men of distinction and quality, that made a…Numbers 16:1Numbers 16:1 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeKorah: Numbers 26:9-10, Numbers 27:3; Exodus 6:18, Exodus 6:21; Jude 1:11
sons of Reuben: Genesis 49:3-4; 1 Chronicles 5:1-2
took men: As the word men is not in the text, some read "took counsel;" and some "took…Numbers 16:2Numbers 16:2 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgefamous: Numbers 26:9; Genesis 6:4; 1 Chronicles 5:24, 1 Chronicles 12:30; Ezekiel 16:14, Ezekiel 23:10Numbers 16:2Numbers 16:2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd they rose up before Moses,.... To his face, openly and publicly, in a bold and audacious manner; with impudence, as the Targum of Jonathan:with certain of the children of Israel; some out of the several tribes, but…