Numbers 16:32
Hebrew Text— Numbers 16:32The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
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One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.
I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.
Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’
Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.
So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”
Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!
Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.
I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.
“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt.
“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.
Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’ ”
For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.
The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.
The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.
We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.
‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer.”
But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.
and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;
I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”
The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.
the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.
“A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.