Numbers 16:45 (BSB)

“Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron fell facedown.

From Numbers 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 16:45

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 16:45: 45. Get you up from among this congregation. I have expounded the meaning of this expression a little above, namely, that as God regards His people with constant and peculiar love, so He defers His vengeance against the wicked, until these people are set apart, and placed in safety. For tie declares that, as soon as Moses and Aaron have secured themselves, all the rest shall perish in a moment.
• 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 16:45: And Moses said unto Aaron, take a censer,.... Which lay in the tabernacle: and put fire therein from off the altar; the altar of burnt offering, from whence fire only was to be taken for burning incense; and lest Aaron in his hurry should forget to take it from thence, but elsewhere, and offer strange fire as his sons had done, Moses expresses the place...
• 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.