Numbers 16:33 They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.

English Standard Version
So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

New American Standard Bible
So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

King James Bible
They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They went down alive into Sheol with all that belonged to them. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

International Standard Version
So they and all that belonged to them descended alive to Sheol. Then the earth closed over them. That's how they were annihilated from the assembly.

American Standard Version
So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they went down alive into hell the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.

Darby Bible Translation
And they went down, they and all that they had, alive into Sheol, and the earth covered them; and they perished from among the congregation.

Young's Literal Translation
and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly;

Cross References

Numbers 16:32
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

Numbers 16:34
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

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

Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Psalm 55:15
Let death seize on them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Psalm 69:15
Let not the flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth on me.

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

Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.

Ezekiel 31:14
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the middle of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

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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.