◄ Numbers 16:30 ►
Verse  (Click for Chapter)
Good News Translation
But if the LORD does something unheard of, and the earth opens up and swallows them with all they own, so that they go down alive to the world of the dead, you will know that these men have rejected the LORD."

New Revised Standard Version
But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD.”

Contemporary English Version
But suppose the LORD does something that has never been done before. For example, what if a huge crack appears in the ground, and these men and their families fall into it and are buried alive, together with everything they own? Then you will know they have turned their backs on the LORD!"

New American Bible
But if the LORD makes a chasm, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them with all belonging to them, and they go down alive to Sheol, then you will know that these men have spurned the LORD.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.

make a new thing.

Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Isaiah 28:21 For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is strange to him.

Isaiah 43:19 Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 45:7,12 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things. . . .

Jeremiah 31:22 How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O wandering daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.

and they

Numbers 16:33 And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.

Psalm 55:15 Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

Context
The Earth Swallows Korah
…29If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me. 30But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.31And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:…
Cross References
Numbers 16:31
And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:

Job 31:2
For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Psalm 55:15
Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

Psalm 124:3
Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

Ezekiel 31:14
For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall exalt themselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops among the thick branches and leaves, neither shall any of them that are watered stand up in their height: for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down into the pit.

Numbers 16:29
Top of Page
Top of Page