Numberi 16:34

34 En het ganse Israel, dat rondom hen was, vlood voor hun geschrei; want zij zeiden: Dat ons de aarde misschien niet verslinde!

Numberi 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.

Numberi 16:34 In-Context

32 En de aarde opende haar mond, en verslond hen met hun huizen, en allen mensen, die Korach toebehoorden, en al de have.

33 En zij voeren neder, zij en alles wat hunner was, levend ter helle; en de aarde overdekte hen, en zij kwamen om uit het midden der gemeente.

34 En het ganse Israel, dat rondom hen was, vlood voor hun geschrei; want zij zeiden: Dat ons de aarde misschien niet verslinde!

35 Daartoe ging een vuur uit van den HEERE, en verteerde die tweehonderd en vijftig mannen, die reukwerk offerden.

36 En de HEERE sprak tot Mozes, zeggende: