Numbers 16:18 (BSB)
So each man took his censer, put fire and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
From Numbers 16. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 16:18
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 16:18: 18. And they took every man his censer. It is manifest how greatly they were blinded by pride, since, although admonished both by the confidence of Moses and also by the previous examples, they still obstinately go forward. Surely if any spark of the fear of God had remained in them, their censers would straightway have fallen from their hands; but Korah seems to have...
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 16:12-22: Here is, I. The insolence of Dathan and Abiram, and their treasonable remonstrance. Moses had heard what Korah had to say, and had answered it; now he summons Dathan and Abiram to bring in their complaints (Num 16:12); but they would not obey his summons, either because they could not for shame say that to his face which they were resolved to say, and then...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 16:18: And they took every man his censer, and that fire in them,.... That is, they came the next morning, according to order, prepared with their censers and incense; and they took fire from off the altar of burnt offering, which stood in the court of the tabernacle: and laid incense thereon: upon the fire in their censers, and so burned it: and stood in the...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 16:18-22: Num 16:18-22 The next day the rebels presented themselves with censers before the tabernacle, along with Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation also assembled there at the instigation of Korah. The Lord then interposed in judgment. Appearing in His glory to the whole congregation (just as in Num 14:10), He said to Moses and Aaron, “Separate yourselves from this congregation; I will destroy them...