THEOSISNumbers 26:10Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,
וַתִּפְתַּ֨ח הָאָ֜רֶץ אֶת־פִּ֗יהָ וַתִּבְלַ֥ע אֹתָ֛ם וְאֶת־קֹ֖רַח בְּמ֣וֹת הָעֵדָ֑ה בַּאֲכֹ֣ל הָאֵ֗שׁ אֵ֣ת חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים וּמָאתַ֙יִם֙ אִ֔ישׁ וַיִּהְי֖וּ לְנֵֽס׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 16:38In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.
- Num 16:31And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:
- Num 16:35And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
- 2 Pet 2:6And reducing the cities of the Sodomites and of the Gomorrhites into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly,
- 1 Sam 2:34And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees: in one day they shall both of them die.
- 1 Cor 10:6Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.
- 1 Cor 10:10Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.
- Num 16:2Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.