Numbers 16:30

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But if the LORD does something entirely new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up along with all that they have, and they go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 55:15 : 15 May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.
  • Num 16:33 : 33 They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.
  • Job 31:3 : 3 Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?
  • Isa 28:21 : 21 For the LORD will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task.
  • Isa 43:19 : 19 “Look, I am about to do something new. Now it begins to happen! Do you not recognize it? Yes, I will make a road in the wilderness and paths in the wastelands.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the LORD, who accomplishes all these things.
  • Isa 45:12 : 12 I made the earth; I created the people who live on it. It was me– my hands stretched out the sky. I give orders to all the heavenly lights.
  • Jer 31:22 : 22 How long will you vacillate, you who were once like an unfaithful daughter? For I, the LORD, promise to bring about something new on the earth, something as unique as a woman protecting a man!’”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 16:31-36
    6 verses
    85%

    31When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

    32and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods.

    33They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.

    34All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said,“What if the earth swallows us too?”

    35Then a fire went out from the LORD and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

    36The Atonement for the Rebellion(17:1) The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 16:29
    78%

    29If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

  • Deut 11:6
    76%

    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.

  • Num 26:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    10The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

  • Ps 106:17
    75%

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

  • Prov 1:12
    72%

    12We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

  • Exod 15:12
    71%

    12You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.

  • Num 16:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

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

    21“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

  • Job 37:20
    70%

    20Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!

  • Amos 9:2
    70%

    2Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

  • Deut 11:17
    70%

    17Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

  • Ps 124:3
    70%

    3they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.

  • Job 34:16
    69%

    16God Is Impartial and Omniscient“If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.

  • Num 14:35-37
    3 verses
    69%

    35I, the LORD, have said,“I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”

    36The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

    37those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

  • Num 16:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Num 16:23
    69%

    23So the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Job 12:15
    69%

    15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • Num 16:44-45
    2 verses
    69%

    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

    45“Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

  • Isa 14:16
    69%

    16Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking:“Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?

  • Isa 5:14
    68%

    14So Death will open up its throat, and open wide its mouth; Zion’s dignitaries and masses will descend into it, including those who revel and celebrate within her.

  • Ps 55:15
    68%

    15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • Jer 16:10
    68%

    10The Lord Promises Exile(But Also Restoration)“When you tell these people about all this, they will undoubtedly ask you,‘Why has the LORD threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the LORD our God?’

  • Job 22:16
    68%

    16men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

  • Jer 9:12
    68%

    12I said,“Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? Who has a word from the LORD that can explain it? Why does the land lie in ruins? Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?”

  • Mic 7:17
    68%

    17They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the LORD our God; they will be terrified of you.

  • Deut 29:23
    68%

    23The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.

  • Lev 10:2
    68%

    2So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.

  • Exod 21:33
    68%

    33“If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

  • Num 11:33
    68%

    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Ps 21:9
    68%

    9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

  • Jer 10:11
    68%

    11You people of Israel should tell those nations this:‘These gods did not make heaven and earth. They will disappear from the earth and from under the heavens.’

  • Num 31:16
    68%

    16Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!

  • Isa 24:17
    68%

    17Terror, pit, and snare are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth!

  • Deut 18:21
    68%

    21Now if you say to yourselves,‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’–

  • Jer 15:1
    67%

    1Then the LORD said to me,“Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!

  • Isa 2:19
    67%

    19They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

  • Num 16:16
    67%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:16
    67%

    16The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

  • Prov 15:11
    67%

    11Death and Destruction are before the LORD– how much more the hearts of humans!