34And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
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And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. …
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; …
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-34)We have here the determining of the controversy with Dathan and Abiram, who rebelled against Moses, as in the next paragraph the determining of the controversy with Korah and his company, who would be rivals with Aaron. It should seem that Dathan and Abiram had set up a spacious tabernacle in the midst of the tents of their families, where they kept court, met in council, and hung out their flag o…
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