Numbers 16:6 (BSB)

You, Korah, and all your followers are to do as follows: Take censers,

From Numbers 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 16:6

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 16:1-11: Here is, I. An account of the rebels, who and what they were, not, as formerly, the mixed multitude and the dregs of the people, who are therefore never named, but men of distinction and quality, that made a figure. Korah was the ring-leader: he formed and headed the faction; therefore it is called the gainsaying of Korah, Jde 1:11.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 16:6: This do, take you censers,.... Vessels to put incense in to offer, which was the business of the priests: Korah, and all his company; the two hundred fifty princes that were with him, for so many we read took censers, and offered incense, Num 16:18.
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 16:6: Take your censers, Korah, and all his company, &c.--that is, since you aspire to the priesthood, then go, perform the highest function of the office--that of offering incense; and if you are accepted well. How magnanimous the conduct of Moses, who was now as willing that God's people should be priests, as formerly that they should be prophets (Num 11:29).
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 16:6-14: Num 16:6-14 To leave the decision of this to the Lord, Korah and his company, who laid claim to this prerogative, were to take censers, and bring lighted incense before Jehovah. He whom the Lord should choose was to be the sanctified one. This was to satisfy them. With the expression רב־לכם in Num 16:7, Moses gives the rebels back their own words in Num 16:3.