Numeri 16:34

34 Und ganz Israel, das rings um sie her war, floh bei ihrem Geschrei; denn sie sprachen: Daß die Erde uns nicht verschlinge!

Numeri 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.

Numeri 16:34 In-Context

32 und die Erde tat ihren Mund auf und verschlang sie und ihre Familien und alle Menschen, die Korah angehörten, und die ganze Habe.

33 Und sie fuhren, sie und alles, was ihnen angehörte, lebendig in den Scheol hinab; und die Erde bedeckte sie, und sie wurden mitten aus der Versammlung vertilgt.

34 Und ganz Israel, das rings um sie her war, floh bei ihrem Geschrei; denn sie sprachen: Daß die Erde uns nicht verschlinge!

35 Und Feuer ging aus von Jehova und fraß die zweihundertfünfzig Männer, die das Räucherwerk dargebracht hatten.

36 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach: