Numbers 16:33

33 descenderuntque vivi in infernum operti humo et perierunt de medio multitudinis

Numbers 16:33 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:33

They, and all that [appertained] unto them, went down alive
into the pit
The grave which the opening earth made for them, they and their families:

and the earth closed upon them;
and covered them over; this it did of itself, as Aben Ezra remarks: this was a wonderful instance of almighty power, that it should open in such large fissures as to swallow up such a number of men, with their tents, goods, and cattle, and then close again so firmly, as not to have the least appearance upon it of what had happened, as Josephus observes ^F26,

and they perished from among the congregation;
and had a name and a place no more with them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Antiqu. ut supra, (l. 4. c. 3.) sect. 3.

Numbers 16:33 In-Context

31 confestim igitur ut cessavit loqui disrupta est terra sub pedibus eorum

32 et aperiens os suum devoravit illos cum tabernaculis suis et universa substantia

33 descenderuntque vivi in infernum operti humo et perierunt de medio multitudinis

34 at vero omnis Israhel qui stabat per gyrum fugit ad clamorem pereuntium dicens ne forte et nos terra degluttiat

35 sed et ignis egressus a Domino interfecit ducentos quinquaginta viros qui offerebant incensum