Psalm 106:18
 Psalm 106:18 
New International Version (©2011)
Fire blazed among their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Fire fell upon their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Fire blazed throughout their assembly; flames consumed the wicked.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then a fire burned among their company, a flame that set the wicked ablaze.

NET Bible (©2006)
Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
A fire was kindled in their assemblies and a flame burned up the evil ones.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
A fire broke out among their followers. Flames burned up wicked people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

American King James Version
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

American Standard Version
And a fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.

Darby Bible Translation
And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

English Revised Version
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

Webster's Bible Translation
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

World English Bible
A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

Young's Literal Translation
And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

106:13-33 Those that will not wait for God's counsel, shall justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even for lawful things, becomes sinful. God showed his displeasure for this. He filled them with uneasiness of mind, terror of conscience, and self-reproach. Many that fare deliciously every day, and whose bodies are healthful, have leanness in their souls: no love to God, no thankfulness, no appetite for the Bread of life, and then the soul must be lean. Those wretchedly forget themselves, that feast their bodies and starve their souls. Even the true believer will see abundant cause to say, It is of the Lord's mercies that I am not consumed. Often have we set up idols in our hearts, cleaved to some forbidden object; so that if a greater than Moses had not stood to turn away the anger of the Lord, we should have been destroyed. If God dealt severely with Moses for unadvised words, what do those deserve who speak many proud and wicked words? It is just in God to remove those relations that are blessings to us, when we are peevish and provoking to them, and grieve their spirits.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 18. - And a fire was kindled in their company (see Numbers 16:35, 40; Numbers 26:10). The flame burned up the wicked. Korah and his "company" were more "wicked" than Dathan, Abiram, and their followers, since they had received a favour from God which ought to have satisfied them (Numbers 16:9, 10), and since they ought to have been better instructed in the Law than ordinary Israelites. Hence Korah alone is mentioned in Jude 1:11.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And a fire was kindled in their company,.... This seems to be the company of Korah, or however a part of it, the two hundred and fifty men that had censers, and so were of the Levitical race, as Korah was; this fire came from the Lord out of heaven.

The flame burned up the wicked; the two hundred and fifty men with censers, Numbers 16:35, this was an emblem of that fire which shall consume those that hurt the witnesses; or of that vengeance of eternal fire which wicked men will suffer for ever.


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Give Thanks to the Lord, for He is Good
17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram. 18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. 19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. …

Numbers 16:35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
Psalm 106:19 At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.