Numbers 16:43 (BSB)

Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting,

From Numbers 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 16:43

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 16:41-50: Here is, I. A new rebellion raised the very next day against Moses and Aaron. Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and wonder, O earth! Was there ever such an instance of the incurable corruption of sinners? On the morrow (Num 16:41) the body of the people mutinied. 1. Though they were so lately terrified by the sight of the punishment of the rebels.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 16:43: And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. Whose tent was not far from it, about which the people of Israel were gathered; and from whence they came to the tabernacle, both for shelter and safety, and for advice and instruction how to behave in this crisis; they did not go into it, but stood before it; the Lord being in the...
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 16:43-50: Num 16:43-50 Thereupon they both went into the court of (פּני אל, as in Lev 9:5) the tabernacle, and God commanded them to rise up (הרמּוּ, Niphal of רמם = רוּם; see Ges. §65, Anm. 5) out of this congregation, which He would immediately destroy. But they fell upon their faces in prayer, as in Num 16:21-22.