Psalm 106:17 {105:17}
Good News Translation
Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;

New Revised Standard Version
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the faction of Abiram.

Contemporary English Version
Dathan and Abiram rebelled, and the earth opened up and swallowed them.

New American Bible
The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, it closed on the followers of Abiram.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.

Numbers 16:29-33 If 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. . . .

Numbers 26:10 And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,

Deuteronomy 11:6 And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.

Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
16And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord. 17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.18And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.…
Cross References
Numbers 16:1
And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of Pheleth of the children of Ruben,

Numbers 16:32
And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.

Deuteronomy 11:6
And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.

Psalm 106:16
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