Numbers 16:35
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
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Gill's Exposition
And there came out a fire from the Lord,.... Flashes of lightning from the cloud in which he was:
and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense; not that it reduced them to ashes,…
We must now look back to the door of the tabernacle, where we left the pretenders to the priesthood with their censers in their hands ready to offer incense; and here we find,
I. Vengeance taken on…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
The sin of Korah's company was the same as that of Nadab and Abihu (Lev 10:1-2), and their punishment was the same. -The gainsaying of Korah" is referred to as a typical sin in Judges 11.
36 40 [Heb.…
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