Numbers 16:30
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
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Gill's Exposition
But if the Lord make a new thing,.... Or "create a creation", or "creature" (s), what never was before, or put those persons to a death that none ever in the world died of yet; what that is he means…
We have here the determining of the controversy with Dathan and Abiram, who rebelled against Moses, as in the next paragraph the determining of the controversy with Korah and his company, who would be…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
into the pit into Sheol, the place of departed human beings. It was thought of as lying beneath the earth, or deep within it.
We are probably to think of the catastrophe as taking place in the form…
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