Numbers 16

Numbers 16:1

Now. See note on “while”, Numbers 15:32.

Korah. First cousin to Moses and Aaron. Numbers 6:8. 1 Chronicles 6:2, 1 Chronicles 6:3. These three associated, because encamped together on south side. Compare Numbers 2:10 and Numbers 3:29. See p. 181.

sons. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, read “son”.

men. This word necessitated through Authorized Version and Revised Version misplacing the verb “took”, which should be after Levi. “Korah took Dathan . . . and Abiram . . . and On, the son of Peleth, the son of Reuben”. See below.

Numbers 16:2

children = sons.

assembly = appointed assembly.

congregation = assembly. Hebrew. ’edah.

Numbers 16:3

congregation = appointed assembly. Hebrew. ’edah.

holy. See note on Exodus 3:5.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

congregation = assembly.

Numbers 16:7

man. Hebrew. ’ish. App-14.

Numbers 16:9

Seemeth it . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis App-6.

tabernacle = Hebrew. mishkan, habitation. App-40.

Numbers 16:11

and what is Aaron? = “and Aaron, who is he”? Figure of speech Erotesis.

Numbers 16:13

Is it . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

Numbers 16:14

put out = bore out.

Numbers 16:15

offering = gift offering. App-13.

Numbers 16:18

fire. Note three kinds of fire here, Numbers 16:18 = strange fire; Numbers 16:35, judicial fire; Numbers 16:46, sacrificial fire. Compare Leviticus 9:24 with Leviticus 10:1, Leviticus 10:2.

door = entrance.

tabernacle = tent. Hebrew ’ohel. App-40.

Numbers 16:20

spake. See note on Numbers 1:1.

Numbers 16:22

O GOD = O ’El. App-4.

God = Elohim. App-4.

spirits. Hebrew, plural of ruach. App-9.

man. Hebrew. ’ish. App-14.

sin. Hebrew. chat’a. App-44.

Numbers 16:24

tabernacle. Hebrew. mishkan, habitation in sing. here = the habitation of each, separately; in Numbers 16:26 plural, “tents”.

Numbers 16:26

wicked. Hebrew. rash’a. App-41.

men. Hebrew pi of ’ish or ’enosh.

Numbers 16:27

they = and Korah and his sons among them. Compare Numbers 26:11.

door = entrance.

their sons: i.e. the sons of Dathan and Abiram, not of Korah. Compare Ch. Numbers 26:11. Psalms 106:17. See note on Numbers 16:32.

Numbers 16:28

I have not done them. Figure of speech Ellipsis. App-6.

Numbers 16:29

men. Hebrew. ’adam. App-14.

Numbers 16:30

make a new thing. Hebrew “create a creation”. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6, for emphasis, throwing light on Genesis 1:1. Compare Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 48:6, Isaiah 48:7.

them: Dathan and Abiram. Compare Numbers 16:27. Korah’s sons had obeyed the command, Compare Numbers 26:11.

quick = alive.

pit = Sheol, see Numbers 16:33 and App-35.

Numbers 16:32

men: Hebrew. ’adam. App-14. These did not include Korah’s sons. Compare Numbers 26:11.

Numbers 16:33

pit = Hebrew. sheol = the grave, not “a” grave, but all graves viewed as one. See App-35. They went alive, with all their cattle, tents, and goods. All sank into the earth.

Numbers 16:35

two hundred and fifty. Plus the 14,700 of Numbers 16:49

Numbers 16:36

spake. See note on Numbers 1:1.

Numbers 16:37

burning. Hebrew. saraph. See App-43. e from among those that were burnt.

the fire. Compare Numbers 16:7, not accepted by Jehovah.

hallowed = set apart. See note on “holy”. Exodus 3:5

Numbers 16:38

sinners. See App-44.

souls = their own selves. Hebrew. nephesh.

their own. Compare Genesis 19:17 and Proverbs 20:2.

offered. Hebrew brought near. App-43.

Numbers 16:40

memorial. Compare Ch. Numbers 17:10, 1 Corinthians 10:11, and see Structure, p 203. Hence history rehearsed in Deuteronomy 11:6-8. Note the two memorials added to the tabernacle through Korah’s rebellion (see the Structure, p. 203), the plates (36-40) and Aaron’s rod (Numbers 17:1-13).

offer = burn. Hebrew. katar. App-43.

as = according as.

to him, or with regard thereto.

Numbers 16:42

tabernacle = tent. Hebrew. ’ohel. App-40.

behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

Numbers 16:46

atonement. See note on Exodus 29:33.

from = from before.

Numbers 16:48

the = Hebrew between the.

Numbers 16:49

fourteen thousand and seven hundred. This, with the 250 of =Numbers 16:3514; Numbers 16:950 (= 13 x 1,150). See App-10for significance of the number 13.

Numbers 16:50

door = entrance.