Numbers 16:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 55:15 : 15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
  • Num 16:33 : 33 So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.
  • Job 31:3 : 3 Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
  • Isa 28:21 : 21 For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.
  • Isa 43:19 : 19 See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
  • Isa 45:12 : 12 I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.
  • Jer 31:22 : 22 How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 16:31-36
    6 verses
    85%

    31 And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two;

    32 And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.

    33 So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

    34 And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.

    35 Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

    36 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 16:29
    78%

    29 If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me.

  • Deut 11:6
    76%

    6 And what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; when they went down into the open mouth of the earth, with their families and their tents and every living thing which was theirs, before the eyes of all Israel:

  • Num 26:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    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:

    10 And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.

  • Ps 106:17
    75%

    17 The earth opening put an end to Dathan, covering up Abiram and his band.

  • Prov 1:12
    72%

    12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • Exod 15:12
    71%

    12 When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

  • Num 16:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Job 37:20
    70%

    20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

  • Amos 9:2
    70%

    2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

  • Deut 11:17
    70%

    17 For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

  • Ps 124:3
    70%

    3 They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

  • Job 34:16
    69%

    16 If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

  • Num 14:35-37
    3 verses
    69%

    35 I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.

    36 And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,

    37 Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

  • Num 16:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

    27 So on every side they went away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram: and Dathan and Abiram came out to the door of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their little ones.

  • Num 16:23
    69%

    23 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Job 12:15
    69%

    15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Num 16:44-45
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Isa 14:16
    69%

    16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

  • Isa 5:14
    68%

    14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

  • Ps 55:15
    68%

    15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Jer 16:10
    68%

    10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

  • Job 22:16
    68%

    16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

  • Jer 9:12
    68%

    12 Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

  • Mic 7:17
    68%

    17 They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.

  • Deut 29:23
    68%

    23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

  • Lev 10:2
    68%

    2 And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

  • Exod 21:33
    68%

    33 If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;

  • Num 11:33
    68%

    33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

  • Ps 21:9
    68%

    9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

  • Jer 10:11
    68%

    11 This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

  • Num 31:16
    68%

    16 It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

  • Isa 24:17
    68%

    17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

  • Deut 18:21
    68%

    21 And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?

  • Jer 15:1
    67%

    1 Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.

  • Isa 2:19
    67%

    19 And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • Num 16:16
    67%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:16
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    16 Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

  • Prov 15:11
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    11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!