Números 16:34

34 Y todo Israel, los que estaban en derredor de ellos, huyeron al estruendo de ellos; porque decían: Por ventura no nos trague la tierra.

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 y abrió la tierra su boca, y los tragó a ellos, y a sus casas; a todos los hombres de Coré, y a toda su hacienda.

33 Y ellos, con todo lo que tenían, descendieron vivos al infierno, y los cubrió la tierra, y perecieron de en medio de la congregación.

34 Y todo Israel, los que estaban en derredor de ellos, huyeron al estruendo de ellos; porque decían: Por ventura no nos trague la tierra.

35 Y salió fuego del SEÑOR, y consumió los doscientos cincuenta hombres que ofrecían el sahumerio.

36 Entonces el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo: