49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
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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. …
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. …
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 41-50)Here is, I. A new rebellion raised the very next day against Moses and Aaron. Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and wonder, O earth! Was there ever such an instance of the incurable corruption of sinners? On the morrow (Num. 16:41) the body of the people mutinied. 1. Though they were so lately terrified by the sight of the punishment of the rebels. The shrieks of those sinking sinners, those sinn…
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