Psalms 106:17 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 106:17

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram.

KJV

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

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Commentary

2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 5 (1878)

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. Korah is not mentioned, for mercy was extended to his household, though he himself perished. The earth could no longer bear up under the weight of these rebels and ingrates: God's patience was exhausted when they began to assail his servants, for his children are very dear to him, and he that toucheth them touches the apple of his eye. Moses had opened the sea for their deliverance, and now that they provoke him, the earth opens for their destruction.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

All the congregation took part with Dathan, Korah, &c., and their accomplices (Nu 16:41). Aaron the saint--literally, "the holy one," as consecrated priest; not a moral attribute, but one designating his office as holy to the Lord. The rebellion was followed by a double punishment: (1) of the non-Levitical rebels, the Reubenites, Dathan and Abiram, &c.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
תִּפְתַּח־	tif.tach-	it opened	H6605 →
אֶ֭רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] earth	H776 →
וַתִּבְלַ֣ע	va.tiv.La'	and it swallowed up	H1104 →
דָּתָ֑ן	da.Tan	Dathan	H1885 →
וַ֝תְּכַ֗ס	va.te.Khas	and it covered	H3680 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
עֲדַ֥ת	'a.Dat	[the] company of	H5712 →
אֲבִירָֽם׃	'a.vi.Ram	Abiram	H48 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 11:6
and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents,…
leads to
- Numbers 26:9–10
  and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the congregation, who fought against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah who rebelled against the…
- Numbers 16:1–35
  Now 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—conducted
- Numbers 27:3
  “Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.
Through
Numbers 26:10
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.
leads to
- Numbers 16:38
  As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become…
- Numbers 16:31–35
  As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,
- 2 Peter 2:6
  if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
- Ezekiel 14:8
  I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Psalms 106:17–18

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