Numbers 16:3

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They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?

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  • Ps 106:16 : 16 They were full of envy against Moses among the tents, and against Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.
  • Exod 19:6 : 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
  • Num 14:14 : 14 And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
  • Num 16:7 : 7 And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord tomorrow; then the man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you take overmuch on yourselves, you sons of Levi.
  • Num 16:11 : 11 So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?
  • Num 35:34 : 34 Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
  • Ps 68:17 : 17 The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.
  • Exod 29:45-46 : 45 Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God. 46 And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.
  • Num 12:1-2 : 1 Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife. 2 And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.
  • Num 14:1-4 : 1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping. 2 And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land! 3 Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt? 4 And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
  • Isa 1:11-16 : 11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? 13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. 14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
  • Jer 7:3-9 : 3 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place. 4 Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these. 5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour; 6 If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves: 7 Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever. 8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit. 9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you; 10 And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things? 11 Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord. 12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.
  • Matt 3:9-9 : 9 And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham. 10 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
  • Acts 7:39 : 39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

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  • Num 16:6-13
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    6 So do this: let Korah and all his band take vessels for burning perfumes;

    7 And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord tomorrow; then the man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you take overmuch on yourselves, you sons of Levi.

    8 And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:

    9 Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;

    10 Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

    11 So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?

    12 Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: and they said, We will not come up:

    13 Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

  • Num 16:2
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    2 And came before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty chiefs of the people, men of good name who had a place in the meeting of the people.

  • Num 16:40-45
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    40 To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses.

    41 But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

    42 Now when the people had come together against Moses and Aaron, looking in the direction of the Tent of meeting, they saw the cloud covering it, and the glory of the Lord came before their eyes.

    43 Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of meeting.

    44 And the Lord said to Moses,

    45 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

  • Num 16:15-23
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    15 Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give no attention to their offering: not one of their asses have I taken, or done wrong to any of them.

    16 And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to come before the Lord tomorrow, you and they and Aaron:

    17 And let every man take a vessel for burning perfumes, and put sweet spices in them; let every man take his vessel before the Lord, two hundred and fifty vessels; you and Aaron and everyone with his vessel.

    18 So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them, with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

    19 And Korah made all the people come together against them to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people.

    20 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    21 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

    22 Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?

    23 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 16:4
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    4 And Moses, hearing this, went down on his face;

  • Exod 16:2
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    2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

  • Num 20:2
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    2 And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron.

  • Num 27:14-15
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    14 Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)

    15 Then Moses said to the Lord,

  • Num 14:5
    74%

    5 Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.

  • Num 12:2
    74%

    2 And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.

  • Num 14:26-27
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    26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

  • Num 16:25-26
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    25 So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the responsible men of Israel went with him.

    26 And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins.

  • Exod 16:9
    73%

    9 And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord for he has given ear to your outcry.

  • Ps 106:16
    73%

    16 They were full of envy against Moses among the tents, and against Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.

  • Exod 24:1
    72%

    1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

  • Num 4:1
    72%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Num 1:17
    72%

    17 And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;

  • Num 16:36
    72%

    36 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 32:21
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    21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?

  • Num 26:9
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    9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord:

  • Num 11:16
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    16 And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you.

  • Num 14:41
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    41 And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

  • Josh 22:16
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    16 This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?

  • Exod 24:9
    71%

    9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:

  • Exod 19:21
    71%

    21 And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

  • Exod 4:29
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    29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

  • Exod 16:11
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    11 And the Lord said to Moses,