Numbers 16:23 (BSB)

Then the LORD said to Moses,

From Numbers 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 16:23

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 16:23-34: We have here the determining of the controversy with Dathan and Abiram, who rebelled against Moses, as in the next paragraph the determining of the controversy with Korah and his company, who would be rivals with Aaron. It should seem that Dathan and Abiram had set up a spacious tabernacle in the midst of the tents of their families, where they kept court, met in...
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 16:23: And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... When on his face in prayer, and bid him rise up, and told him he had granted his request, and then spoke to him: saying; as follows.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 16:23-26: Num 16:23-26 Jehovah then instructed Moses, that the congregation was to remove away (עלה, to get up and away) from about the dwelling-place of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and, as we may supply from the context, the congregation fell back from Korah’s tent, whilst Dathan and Abiram, possibly at the very first appearance of the divine glory, drew back into their tents.