Numbers 16:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

Numbers 16:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 16:45
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Exodus 32:10
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Exodus 33:5
For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Psalms 73:19
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Benjamin Company Dathan Exodus Intercession Israel

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-22)

Here is, I. The insolence of Dathan and Abiram, and their treasonable remonstrance. Moses had heard what Korah had to say, and had answered it; now he summons Dathan and Abiram to bring in their complaints (Num. 16:12); but they would not obey his summons, either because they could not for shame say that to his face which they were resolved to say, and then it is an instance of some remains of mod…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

20-21. the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, Separate yourselves from among this congregation--Curiosity to witness the exciting spectacle attracted a vast concourse of the people, and it would seem that the popular mind had been incited to evil by the clamors of the mutineers against Moses and Aaron. There was something in their behavior very offensive to God; for after His glory had appea…