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Numbers 16:45-50

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45 "1Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them instantly." Then they fell on their faces.
46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and 2make atonement for them, for 3wrath has gone forth from the LORD, the plague has begun!"
47 Then Aaron took it as Moses had spoken, and ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people. 4So he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.
48 He took his stand between the dead and the living, so that the plague was checked.
49 5But those who died by the plague were 14,700 * * * *, besides * those who 6died on account * of Korah.
50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of meeting, for the plague had been checked.
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Numbers 16:45-50 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 16

This chapter gives an account of a sedition of Korah and others against Moses and Aaron, Nu 16:1-4, with whom Moses expostulates, and shows the unreasonableness of their clamour against Aaron, Nu 16:5-11; sends for Dathan and Abiram, who were in the confederacy, but refused to come, which greatly angered Moses, Nu 16:12-15; orders Korah and his company to appear before the Lord the next day, with Aaron, to have the controversy decided, Nu 16:16-18; when all the congregation gathered together would have been, consumed had it not been for the intercession of Moses and Aaron, Nu 16:19-22; and who, being separated from the rebels by the command of the Lord, some of the rebels were swallowed up in the earth, and others destroyed by fire from heaven, Nu 16:23-35; and their censers were made a covering for the altar, as a memorial of their sin, Nu 16:36-40; on which there was a new insurrection of the people, which brought a plague upon them, and destroyed 14,700 persons, and which was stopped at the intercession of Aaron, Nu 16:41-50.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 6

  • 1. Numbers 16:21, 24
  • 2. Numbers 25:13; Isaiah 6:6, 7
  • 3. Numbers 18:5; Deuteronomy 9:22
  • 4. Num 25:6-8, 13
  • 5. Numbers 25:9
  • 6. Numbers 16:32, 35

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