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Summary
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
Earth opened
They became a sign
General references
Bible References
Earth opened
Numbers 16:2
250 prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses.
Numbers 27:3
“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among Korah’s followers, who gathered together against the Lord. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.
Exodus 16:35
The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.
Psalm 106:17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it covered the assembly of Abiram.
it covered the assembly of Abiram.
They became a sign
Numbers 16:38
As for the firepans of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered sheets as plating for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord, and the firepans are holy. They will be a sign to the Israelites.”
1 Samuel 2:34
This will be the sign that will come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: both of them will die on the same day.
Jeremiah 29:22
Based on what happens to them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will create a curse that says, ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
Ezekiel 14:8
I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.
2 Peter 2:6
and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;
Jude 1:7
In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions, just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
General references
Numbers 16:31
Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open.
Psalm 106:17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it covered the assembly of Abiram.
it covered the assembly of Abiram.