Numbers 16:28

“And Moses said, hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works, etc.] To bring the people of Israel out of Egypt, to exchange the firstborn for the Levites, to make Aaron and his sons priests, to give the Levites to them, and to set Elizaphan over the Kohathites, things which these men found fault with, and questioned his authority for doing them: for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind; or “not out of my heart” f227; he had not devised them himself, and done them of his own head, and in any arbitrary way, without the will of God or any authority from him, as these men suggested.”

“Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works--The awful catastrophe of the earthquake which, as predicted by Moses, swallowed up those impious rebels in a living tomb, gave the divine attestation to the mission of Moses and struck the spectators with solemn awe.”

“All these works - As the bringing of the people out of Egypt; the conducting of them through the wilderness; the exercising authority among them; and giving laws to them concerning the priesthood. Numbers 16:29”

“16:28-30 Moses had faith that God would enact his own justice, and God did so (16:31-35; cp. 1 Kgs 18:18-40). • into the grave: Sheol was the place of the dead (see 1 Sam 2:6; 2 Sam 22:5-6; Job 3:20-22; Ps 16:10; Acts 2:27-33; 1 Cor 15:15; Rev 20:13-14).”

“Hereby: Exo 3:12, Exo 4:1-9, Exo 7:9; Deu 18:22; Zac 2:9, Zac 4:9; Joh 5:36, Joh 11:42, Joh 14:11 for I have: Kee lo millibbee, "and that not out of my heart." It was not of my own device or contrivance. It was not out of an ambitious desire to be great myself that I took upon me the government, nor out of private affection to my brother, that I appointed him and his family to the priesthood. of mine: Num 24:13; Kg1 18:36; Jer 23:16; Eze 13:17; Joh 5:30, Joh 6:38 Numbers 16:29”