Numbers 16:48 (BSB)

He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

From Numbers 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 16:48

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 16:48: 48. And he stood between the living and the dead. If you understand that the living were everywhere mingled with the dead, you may conjecture that God’s wrath did not so fall upon one part of the camp, as to destroy all that came in its way without exception, as had been the case in the other revolt, but that He selected those who had sinned most grievously.
• 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 16:48: Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred,.... 14,700. Thus what they were threatened with, that their carcasses should fall in the wilderness, Num 14:29, was more and more fulfilled: beside them that died about the matter of Korah; these are not taken into the number here, even the two hundred fifty men of Korah's company, and the families of...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 16:48: he stood between the living and the dead--The plague seems to have begun in the extremities of the camp. Aaron, in this remarkable act, was a type of Christ. Next: Numbers Chapter 17