--- title: "Bullinger" description: "Now. See note on \"while\", Numbers 15:32 . Korah. First cousin to Moses and Aaron. Numbers 6:8 . 1 Chronicles 6:2 , 1 Chronicles 6:3 . These three associ" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/numbers/16" --- **Now.** See note on "while", [Numbers 15:32](../../../kjv/numbers/15/32) . **Korah.** First cousin to Moses and Aaron. [Numbers 6:8](../../../kjv/numbers/6/8) . [1 Chronicles 6:2](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/6/2) , [1 Chronicles 6:3](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/6/3) . These three associated, because encamped together on south side. Compare [Numbers 2:10](../../../kjv/numbers/2/10) and [Numbers 3:29](../../../kjv/numbers/3/29) . See p. 181. **sons.** Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, read "son". **men.** This word necessitated through Authorized Version and Revised Version misplacing the verb "took", which should be after Levi. "Korah took Dathan . . . and Abiram . . . and On, the son of Peleth, the son of Reuben". See below. **children** = sons. **assembly** = appointed assembly. **congregation** = assembly. Hebrew. *'edah.* **congregation** = appointed assembly. Hebrew. *'edah.* **holy.** See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) . **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **congregation** = assembly. **man.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 . **Seemeth it . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis* App-6 . **tabernacle** = Hebrew. *mishkan* , habitation. App-40 . **and what is Aaron?** = "and Aaron, who is he"? Figure of speech *Erotesis.* **Is it . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **put out** = bore out. **offering** = gift offering. App-13 . **fire.** Note three kinds of fire here, [Numbers 16:18](../../../kjv/numbers/16/18) = strange fire; [Numbers 16:35](../../../kjv/numbers/16/35) , judicial fire; [Numbers 16:46](../../../kjv/numbers/16/46) , sacrificial fire. Compare [Leviticus 9:24](../../../kjv/leviticus/9/24) with [Leviticus 10:1](../../../kjv/leviticus/10/1) , [Leviticus 10:2](../../../kjv/leviticus/10/2) . **door** = entrance. **tabernacle** = tent. *Hebrew 'ohel.* App-40 . **spake.** See note on [Numbers 1:1](../../../kjv/numbers/1/1) . **O GOD** = O *'El.* App-4 . **God** = Elohim. App-4 . **spirits.** Hebrew, plural of *ruach.* App-9 . **man** . Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 . **sin.** Hebrew. *chat'a.* App-44 . **tabernacle.** Hebrew. *mishkan,* habitation in sing. here = the habitation of each, separately; in [Numbers 16:26](../../../kjv/numbers/16/26) plural, "tents". **wicked.** Hebrew. *rash'a.* App-41 . **men.** Hebrew pi of *'ish* or *'enosh.* **they** = and Korah and his sons among them. Compare [Numbers 26:11](../../../kjv/numbers/26/11) . **door** = entrance. **their sons:** i.e. the sons of Dathan and Abiram, not of Korah. Compare Ch. [Numbers 26:11](../../../kjv/numbers/26/11) .[Psalms 106:17](../../../kjv/psalms/106/17) . See note on [Numbers 16:32](../../../kjv/numbers/16/32) . **I have not done them.** Figure of speech *Ellipsis.* App-6 . **men.** Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 . **make a new thing.** Hebrew "create a creation". Figure of speech *Polyptoton.* App-6 , for emphasis, throwing light on [Genesis 1:1](../../../kjv/genesis/1/1) . Compare [Isaiah 45:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/7) ; [Isaiah 48:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/48/6) , [Isaiah 48:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/48/7) . **them:** Dathan and Abiram. Compare [Numbers 16:27](../../../kjv/numbers/16/27) . Korah's sons had obeyed the command, Compare [Numbers 26:11](../../../kjv/numbers/26/11) . **quick** = alive. **pit** = *Sheol,* see [Numbers 16:33](../../../kjv/numbers/16/33) and App-35 . **men:** Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 . These did not include Korah's sons. Compare [Numbers 26:11](../../../kjv/numbers/26/11) . **pit** = Hebrew. *sheol =* the grave, not "a" grave, but all graves viewed as one. See App-35 . They went alive, with all their cattle, tents, and goods. All sank into the earth. **two hundred and fifty.** Plus the 14,700 of [Numbers 16:49](../../../kjv/numbers/16/49) **spake.** See note on [Numbers 1:1](../../../kjv/numbers/1/1) . **burning.** Hebrew. *saraph.* See App-43 . e from among those that were burnt. **the fire.** Compare [Numbers 16:7](../../../kjv/numbers/16/7) , not accepted by Jehovah. **hallowed** = set apart. See note on "holy". [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) **sinners.** See App-44 . **souls** = their own selves. Hebrew. *nephesh.* **their own.** Compare [Genesis 19:17](../../../kjv/genesis/19/17) and [Proverbs 20:2](../../../kjv/proverbs/20/2) . **offered.** Hebrew brought near. App-43 . **memorial.** Compare Ch. [Numbers 17:10](../../../kjv/numbers/17/10) , [1 Corinthians 10:11](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/10/11) , and see Structure, p 203. Hence history rehearsed in [Deuteronomy 11:6-8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/11/6-8) . Note the two memorials added to the tabernacle through Korah's rebellion (see the Structure, p. 203), the plates (36-40) and Aaron's rod ([Numbers 17:1-13](../../../kjv/numbers/17/1-13) ). **offer** = burn. Hebrew. *katar.* App-43 . **as** = according as. **to him,** or with regard thereto. **tabernacle** = tent. Hebrew. *'ohel.* App-40 . **behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . **atonement.** See note on [Exodus 29:33](../../../kjv/exodus/29/33) . **from** = from before. **the** = Hebrew between the. **fourteen thousand and seven hundred.** This, with the 250 of = Num 16:3514 ; Num 16:950 (= 13 x 1,150). 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