Keil & Delitzsch on Numbers 16:31

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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And immediately the earth clave asunder, and swallowed them up, with their families and all their possessions, and closed above them, so that they perished without a trace from the congregation. אתם refers to the three ringleaders. "Their houses;" i.e., their families, not their tents, as in Num 18:31; Exo 12:3. "All the men belonging to Korah" were his servants; for, according to Num 26:11, his sons did not perish with him, but perpetuated his family ( Num 26:58), to which the celebrated Korahite singers of David's time belonged ( Ch1 6:18-22; Ch1 9:19). Numbers 16:34

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