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Numbers 16:41

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The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of Jehovah.

KJV

But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.

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This verse in Numbers 16

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

On the morrow all the congregation - murmured - It is very likely that the people persuaded themselves that Moses and Aaron had used some cunning in this business, and that the earthquake and fire were artificial; else, had they discerned the hand of God in this punishment, could they have dared the anger of the Lord in the very face of justice?

This site's exposition

on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured

on Numbers 16:41-42

One day after the ground closed, the whole congregation lays the deaths at the feet of Moses and Aaron and calls the dead the people of the Lord. Matthew Henry observes that the earth was scarcely closed and the smell of the fire was still in the air. This is the second murmuring in the chapter, at verses 11 and 41, and the word carries on into 17:5 and 17:10 where the rod of Aaron is given as the answer to it.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Salvian the Presbyter

THE GOVERNANCE OF GOD 1.12.57-58 · Written before 500.

proposed

When their crimes were so great, heavenly solicitude was of no avail. As often as they were corrected, so often amendment did not follow. As we are not corrected, even though soundly scourged, so they, though constantly struck down, did not mend their ways. What …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

But on the morrow,.... The day following the dreadful catastrophe, the earth swallowing up Dathan and Abiram, and all that belonged to them, the burning of Korah and the two hundred fifty men of his company: all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron; not the princes and heads of the people only, but the whole body of them; though the above persons that murmured against them had but the day before been made such dreadful examples of divine vengeance.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Though they were so lately terrified by the sight of the punishment of the rebels. The shrieks of those sinking sinners, those sinners against their own souls, were yet sounding in their ears, the smell of the fire yet remained, and the gaping earth was scarcely thoroughly closed, and yet the same sins were re-acted and all these warnings slighted.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּלֹּ֜נוּand they grumbled

    vaiyilonuH3885 →84 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • עֲדַ֤ת[the] congregation of

    ʾadatH5712 →149 times

  • בְּנֵֽי־[the] people of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔תfrom [the] next day

    mimochoratH4283 →32 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֥הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • וְעַֽל־and on

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֖ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • אַתֶּ֥םyou

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • הֲמִתֶּ֖םyou have killed

    hamitemH4191 →839 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עַ֥ם[the] people of

    ʾamH5971 →1873 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Corinthians 10:10And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.16 worksNumbers 14:2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!5 worksNumbers 16:1–7Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted4 worksNumbers 21:5and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”4 worksPsalms 106:25–48They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.3 worksPsalms 106:23So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Acts 5:28“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”2 worksJeremiah 37:13–14But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”2 worksActs 21:28crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”2 worksAmos 7:10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,2 worksMatthew 5:11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.2 worksIsaiah 26:11O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!2 works1 Kings 18:17When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?”2 works2 Samuel 16:7–8And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!2 worksPsalms 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.2 worksNumbers 20:4Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?2 worksExodus 15:24So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”2 worksExodus 16:3“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Acts 5:28

    “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”

    it leads to

    • Matthew 27:25

      All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

    • Acts 4:18–21

      Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

    • Acts 7:52

      Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

    • Acts 4:10–11

      then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from…

  • Through

    Numbers 14:2

    All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

    it leads to

    • Exodus 15:24

      So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

    • Exodus 17:3

      But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

  • Through

    Psalms 106:23

    So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 9:13–14

      The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

    • Deuteronomy 9:25

      So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Death of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Salvian the Presbyter, THE GOVERNANCE OF GOD 1.12.57-58.

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