Mínshùjì 16:31

31 Móxī gāng shuō wán le zhè yīqiè huà , tāmen jiǎo xià de dì jiù kāi le kǒu ,

Mínshùjì 16:31 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:31

And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all
these things
As soon as he had finished his discourse, which was addressed to the congregation, and, according to Josephus ^F21, after a long prayer to God, which that writer gives at large; immediately so it was,

that the ground clave asunder that [was] under them;
on which they stood, not from any natural cause, as by subterranean volcano, forcibly making their way and bursting the earth, and so getting vent, which has been thought to be the cause of earthquakes; but this was by the immediate hand and almighty power of God, and came to pass just as Moses suggested it would, and as soon as he had uttered his words, which made it the more observable.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 Antiqu. l. 4. c. 3. Sect. 2.

Mínshùjì 16:31 In-Context

29 Zhèxie rén sǐ ruò yǔ shìrén wú yì , huò shì tāmen suǒ zāo de yǔ shìrén xiāngtóng , jiù bú shì Yēhéhuá dǎfa wǒ lái de .

30 Tǎngruò Yēhéhuá chuāng zuò yī jiàn xīn shì , shǐ dì kāikǒu , bǎ tāmen hé yīqiè shǔ tāmende dōu tūn xià qù , jiào tāmen huó huó dì zhuìluò yīnjiān , nǐmen jiù míngbai zhèxie rén shì miǎoshì Yēhéhuá le .

31 Móxī gāng shuō wán le zhè yīqiè huà , tāmen jiǎo xià de dì jiù kāi le kǒu ,

32 Bǎ tāmen hé tāmende jia juàn , bìng yīqiè shǔ Kĕlā de rén dīng\ , cáiwù , dōu tūn xià qù .

33 Zhèyàng , tāmen hé yīqiè shǔ tāmende , dōu huó huó dì zhuìluò yīnjiān . dì kǒu zaì tāmen shàng tóu zhào jiù hé bì , tāmen jiù cóng huì zhōng mièwáng .