Números 16:34

34 y toda la gente que los rodeaba huyó cuando oyeron sus gritos. «¡La tierra nos tragará a nosotros también!», exclamaron.

Números 16:34 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:34

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of
them
Or because of it, as Aben Ezra; their cry was so loud, their shrieks so dreadful and piercing, that the Israelites about them fled to get out of the sound of them, as well as for their own safety. The Targum of Jonathan not only represents their cry as terrible, but gives the words they expressed at it;

``and all Israel that were round about them fled, because of the terror of their voice, when they cried and said, the Lord is righteous and his judgments truth, and truth are the words of Moses his servant, but we are wicked who have rebelled against him:''

for they said, lest the earth swallow us up [also];
which they might fear, since they had provoked the Lord, by associating with these men, and countenancing them by their presence, as they had done; who would have consumed them in a moment at first, had it not been for the intercession of Moses and Aaron.

Números 16:34 In-Context

32 La tierra abrió la boca y se tragó a los hombres, junto con todos los de su casa y todos sus seguidores que estaban junto a ellos y todo lo que poseían.

33 Así que descendieron vivos a la tumba, junto con todas sus pertenencias. La tierra se cerró encima de ellos y desaparecieron de entre el pueblo de Israel;

34 y toda la gente que los rodeaba huyó cuando oyeron sus gritos. «¡La tierra nos tragará a nosotros también!», exclamaron.

35 Entonces un fuego ardiente salió del Señor
y consumió a los doscientos cincuenta hombres que ofrecían incienso.

36 El Señor
le dijo a Moisés: