Numbers 16:34

“And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them, etc.] Or because of it, as Aben Ezra; their cry was so loud, their shrieks so dreadful and piercing, that the Israelites about them fled to get out of the sound of them, as well as for their own safety. The Targum of Jonathan not only represents their cry as terrible, but gives the words they expressed at it; “and all Israel that were round about them fled, because of the terror of their voice, when they cried and said, the Lord is righteous and his judgments truth, and truth are the words of Moses his servant, but we are wicked who have rebelled against him:” for they said, lest the earth swallow us up [also]; which they…”

“16:34-35 The 250 Israelite leaders who attempted to offer incense shared the fate of Nadab and Abihu (Lev 10:1-2) and of those who complained about the hardships of the wilderness (Num 11:1; cp. 2 Kgs 1:10).”

“fled: Isa 33:3; Zac 14:5; Rev 6:15-17 Lest: Num 17:12, Num 17:13 Numbers 16:35”

“This fearful destruction of the ringleaders, through which Jehovah glorified Moses afresh as His servant in a miraculous way, filled all the Israelites round about with such terror, that they fled לקלם, "at their noise," i.e., at the commotion with which the wicked men went down into the abyss which opened beneath their feet, lest, as they said, the earth should swallow them up also. Numbers 16:35”