Numbers 16:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said,“We will not come up.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 29:9 : 9 When a wise person goes to court with a foolish person, there is no peace whether he is angry or laughs.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.
  • 1 Pet 2:13-14 : 13 Submission to Authorities Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme 14 or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good.
  • Jude 1:8 : 8 Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

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  • Num 16:23-28
    6 verses
    82%

    23So the LORD spoke to Moses:

    24“Tell the community:‘Get away from around the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’”

    25Then Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him.

    26And he said to the community,“Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins.”

    27So they got away from the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stationed themselves in the entrances of their tents with their wives, their children, and their toddlers.

    28Then Moses said,“This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.

  • Num 26:9
    80%

    9Eliab’s descendants were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram who as leaders of the community rebelled against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah when they rebelled against the LORD.

  • Num 16:13-16
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    78%

    13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

    14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

    15Moses was very angry, and he said to the LORD,“Have no respect for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”

    16Then Moses said to Korah,“You and all your company present yourselves before the LORD– you and they, and Aaron– tomorrow.

  • Num 16:11
    75%

    11Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the LORD! And Aaron– what is he that you murmur against him?”

  • Num 16:1-3
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    1The Rebellion of Korah Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, who were Reubenites, took men

    2and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders of the community, chosen from the assembly, famous men.

    3And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them,“You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the LORD.

  • Num 16:8
    74%

    8Moses said to Korah,“Listen now, you sons of Levi!

  • Num 16:20
    73%

    20The Judgment on the Rebels The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 14:40-42
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    40And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying,“Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the LORD commanded, for we have sinned.”

    41But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!

    42Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.

  • Deut 1:26-27
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    26Disobedience at Kadesh Barnea You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the LORD your God.

    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Ps 106:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest.

    17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it engulfed the group led by Abiram.

  • Deut 11:6
    72%

    6or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and all the property they brought with them.

  • Exod 16:2
    72%

    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • Num 22:14
    72%

    14So the princes of Moab departed and went back to Balak and said,“Balaam refused to come with us.”

  • Exod 14:11
    71%

    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

  • Exod 16:8-9
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    8Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”

    9Then Moses said to Aaron,“Tell the whole community of the Israelites,‘Come before the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings.’”

  • Exod 24:2
    71%

    2Moses alone may come near the LORD, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”

  • Num 14:26
    71%

    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 16:44
    71%

    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 16:41
    70%

    41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  • Num 20:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

    3The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

  • Jer 42:13
    70%

    13“You must not disobey the LORD your God by saying,‘We will not stay in this land.’

  • Exod 19:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23Moses said to the LORD,“The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us,‘Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.’”

    24The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

  • Num 27:15
    70%

    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • Num 14:2
    70%

    2And all the Israelites murmured 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 perished in this wilderness!

  • Num 10:30
    70%

    30But Hobab said to him,“I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”

  • Deut 1:43
    70%

    43I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the LORD and recklessly went up to the hill country.

  • Num 20:10
    70%

    10Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them,“Listen, you rebels, must we bring water out of this rock for you?”

  • Num 14:13
    69%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Exod 6:10
    69%

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 8:26
    69%

    26But Moses said,“That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the LORD our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?

  • Num 14:5
    69%

    5Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

  • Exod 19:3
    69%

    3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel: