Mínshùjì 16:33

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 .

Mínshùjì 16:33 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:33

They, and all that [appertained] unto them, went down alive
into the pit
The grave which the opening earth made for them, they and their families:

and the earth closed upon them;
and covered them over; this it did of itself, as Aben Ezra remarks: this was a wonderful instance of almighty power, that it should open in such large fissures as to swallow up such a number of men, with their tents, goods, and cattle, and then close again so firmly, as not to have the least appearance upon it of what had happened, as Josephus observes ^F26,

and they perished from among the congregation;
and had a name and a place no more with them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Antiqu. ut supra, (l. 4. c. 3.) sect. 3.

Mínshùjì 16:33 In-Context

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 .

34 Zaì tāmen sìwéi de Yǐsèliè zhòngrén tīng tāmen hū haó , jiù dōu taópǎo , shuō , kǒngpà dì yĕ bǎ wǒmen tūn xià qù .

35 Yòu yǒu huǒ cóng Yēhéhuá nàli chūlai , shāo miè le nà xiàn xiāng de èr bǎi wǔ shí gèrén .