Numeri 16:34

34 Und ganz Israel, das um sie her war, floh vor ihrem Geschrei; denn sie sprachen: daß uns die Erde nicht auch 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 tat ihren Mund auf und verschlang sie mit ihren Häusern, mit allen Menschen, die bei Korah waren, und mit aller ihrer Habe;

33 und sie fuhren hinunter lebendig in die Hölle mit allem, was sie hatten, und die Erde deckte sie zu, und kamen um aus der Gemeinde.

34 Und ganz Israel, das um sie her war, floh vor ihrem Geschrei; denn sie sprachen: daß uns die Erde nicht auch verschlinge!

35 Dazu fuhr das Feuer aus von dem HERRN und fraß die zweihundertundfünfzig Männer, die das Räuchwerk opferten.

36 17:1 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach: