Numbers 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.

English Standard Version
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.

New American Standard Bible
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.

King James Bible
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah's people, and all their possessions.

International Standard Version
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, all their households, everyone who was affiliated with Korah, and all of their property.

American Standard Version
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.

Darby Bible Translation
And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property.

Young's Literal Translation
and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who are for Korah, and all the goods,

Cross References

Numbers 16:31
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split asunder that was under them:

Numbers 16:33
They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed on them: and they perished from among the congregation.

Numbers 16:49
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

Numbers 26:10
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

Numbers 26:11
Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.

Deuteronomy 11:6
And what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the middle of all Israel:

Psalm 106:17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.

Psalm 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood on the earth.

Isaiah 24:19
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

16:23-34 The seventy elders of Israel attend Moses. It is our duty to do what we can to countenance and support lawful authority when it is opposed. And those who would not perish with sinners, must come out from among them, and be separate. It was in answer to the prayer of Moses, that God stirred up the hearts of the congregation to remove for their own safety. Grace to separate from evil-doers is one of the things that accompany salvation. God, in justice, left the rebels to the obstinacy and hardness of their own hearts. Moses, by Divine direction, when all Israel were waiting the event, declares that if the rebels die a common death, he will be content to be called and counted an imposter. As soon as Moses had spoken the word, God caused the earth to open and swallow them all up. The children perished with their parents; in which, though we cannot tell how bad they might be to deserve it, or how good God might be otherwise to them; yet of this we are sure, that Infinite Justice did them no wrong. It was altogether miraculous. God has, when he pleases, strange punishments for the workers of iniquity. It was very significant. Considering how the earth is still in like manner loaded with the weight of man's sins, we have reason to wonder that it does not now sink under its load. The ruin of others should be our warning. Could we, by faith, hear the outcries of those that are gone down to the bottomless pit, we should give more diligence than we do to escape for our lives, lest we also come into their condemnation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

28-34. Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works—The awful catastrophe of the earthquake which, as predicted by Moses, swallowed up those impious rebels in a living tomb, gave the divine attestation to the mission of Moses and struck the spectators with solemn awe.