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 (d) became a sign.
(d) That is, as an example that others should not complain and rebel against God's ministers.
Verse Numbers 26:10. _TOGETHER WITH KORAH_] The Samaritan text does not intimate that Korah was _swallowed up_, but that he was _burnt_, as appears in fact to have been the case. _And the earth swallo...
TOGETHER WITH KORAH - i. e., they were engulfed at the same time that Korah perished, for Korah himself appears to bare died among the two hundred and fifty incense offerers at the door of the taberna...
3. THE SECOND NUMBERING CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The command to number (Numbers 26:1)_ 2. The census taken (Numbers 26:5) 3. The total number (Numbers 26:51) 4. The inheritance ...
NUMBERS 26. PARTICULARS OF A SECOND CENSUS TAKEN 38 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST. Numbers 26:1. The Numbers of the Twelve Secular Tribes. The census was again confined to men over twenty. The total is Numbe...
AND THE EARTH. This tenth verse is _a Parenthesis._ See App-6. SIGN: i.e.. warning....
The twelve secular tribes are numbered, the sacred tribe of Levi being omitted. The names are based upon Genesis 46:8-27, but with the addition of Ephraim and Manasseh, who, having been born in Egypt,...
The mention of Dathan and Abiram leads the writer, or a later editor, to add a note recalling the incidents of ch. 16. He combines the story of Dathan and Abiram with that of Korah in such a way that...
_and they became a sign_ This is a reference to Numbers 16:38; but there it is not the offenders but their fire-pans, beaten into plates for the altar, that are a sign....
AND THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, &C.— All this respecting Dathan, &c. is most probably inserted to give a reason for the great decrease of the tribe of Reuben; it being supposed by some, that Korah was...
D. THE SECOND CENSUS (NUMBERS 26:1-51) TEXT Numbers 26:1. And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2. Take the sum of...
_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._ The earth opened he...
26:10 sign. (d-32) Lit. 'standard.'...
THE SECOND NUMBERING OF THE PEOPLE The first took place thirty-eight years before (see Numbers 1) at Mt. Sinai. The people are shortly to enter Canaan, and this second enumeration is made in view of t...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 THE SECOND *CENSUS – NUMBERS 26:1-65 V1 After the disease had stopped, the *LORD spoke to Moses and Elea
AND THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, AND SWALLOWED THEM UP TOGETHER WITH KORAH... — Hebrew, _and Korah._ It would appear from this verse that Korah perished in the earthquake with Dathan and Abiram. The Sa...
וַ תִּפְתַּ֨ח הָ אָ֜רֶץ אֶת ־פִּ֗יהָ וַ
A NEW GENERATION Numbers 26:1; Numbers 27:1 THE numbering at Sinai before the sojourn in the Desert of Paran has its counterpart in the numbering now recorded. In either case those reckoned are the m...
At this point we begin the third and last movement in the Book of Numbers, that which is devoted to the second numbering of the people and their preparation for taking possession of the land from whic...
Miracle. Hebrew, "they became a sign," of reproach, and a memorial of God's just judgments, who caused the earth to swallow up Core and his companions alive, by a most disgraceful kind of death, to wh...
I detain not the Reader through this whole relation, but to remark to him, with what particular emphasis reference is again had to the sin of Dathan and Abiram. Surely the HOLY GHOST intended by it to...
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, 28, AND 29. The journey being now ended, God numbers afresh His people, and counts them by name, as heirs ready to take possession of the inheritance....
AND THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, AND SWALLOWED THEM UP,.... Not only Dathan and Abiram, but their wives and children, their houses and tents, and all their goods, see Numbers 16:32 together with Korah;...
_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._ Ver. 10. _And they...
_Together with Korah_ These words seem to import that Korah was swallowed up with Dathan and Abiram. But it being more probable, as was observed on Numbers 16:32, that Korah was consumed by the _fire...
1 The summe of all Israel is taken in the plaines of Moab. 52 The law of diuiding among them the inheritance of the land. 57 The families and number of the Leuites. 63 None were left of them which...
and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, when the two Reubenites with their families, together with Korah and his servants or immediate follower...
THE MUSTER OF THE HOST...
A SECOND CENSUS OF ISRAEL (vs.1-50) As at the first of the wilderness journey a census of the nation was taken (ch.1:46), now as they near the end of that journey another census is required by God. A...
1-51 Moses did not number the people but when God commanded him. We have here the families registered, as well as the tribes. The total was nearly the same as when numbered at mount Sinai. Notice is h...
SWALLOWED THEM UP TOGETHER WITH KORAH: according to this translation Korah was not consumed by fire with his two hundred and fifty men, NUM 16, but swallowed up by the earth. But others rather think h...
This, though one of the longest Chapter s in our book, does not call for much in the way of remark or exposition. In it we have the record of the second numbering of the people, as they were about to...
Numbers 26:10 earth H776 opened H6605 (H8799) mouth H6310 up H1104 (H8799) Korah H7141 company H5712 died...
THE NUMBERING OF THE ARMY IN THEIR TRIBES AND CLANS (NUMBERS 26:5). The numbering was far more than a head count. It was a listing of the contingents to which the men belonged. Numbers 26:5 ‘Reuben,...
CONTENTS: The new generation of Israel numbered. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Eleazar, Caleb, Joshua. CONCLUSION: God is faithful to His threatenings as well as to His promises. Millions may fall to the...
The genealogies here labour under the usual difficulties arising from variation of orthography, or from the omission of a name. The five or six names omitted here of those who went down into Egypt, ar...
_The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up._ SOLEMN MONITORS AGAINST SIN Sin and infamy cling to families long after the actors have passed away. Parents ought to strive above all to leave to...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 26:1__ The first census (ch. Numbers 1:1) established the number of fighting men in Israel. This second census establishes the size of each tribe, so that each may receive the
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 26:9 These verses recall the events in ch. Numbers 16:1. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 26:1. _The plague_. See Numbers 25:9. Numbers 26:4. _Take the sum of the people_. These words are supplied in the A. V. to fill up an ellipsis; and it seems to...
EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUSTERING (Numbers 26:1). NUMBERS 26:1 IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THE PLAGUE. This plague was the last event which seriously diminished the numbers of the Israelites; perhaps it was...
Now in chapter twenty-six we again have the tribes numbered off. Now remember this is at the end of the forty years of wandering. At the beginning of the forty years of wandering they numbered the tri...
1 Corinthians 10:6; 1 Samuel 2:34; 2 Peter 2:6; Exodus 16:35; E
With Korah — According to this translation Korah was not consumed by fire with his two hundred and fifty men, but swallowed up by the earth. But others rather think he was devoured by the fire, and re...