Numbers 16:29
27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.
- KJV
- If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
- WEB
- If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then the LORD hasn’t sent me.
- ASV
- If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me.
- DARBY
- if these men die as all men die, and are visited with the visitation of all men, Jehovah has not sent me;
- BLB
- If like the death of every man these ones die, or if the common fate of all men is visited upon them, [then] YHWH has not sent me.
- ÅB
- Dersom disse folk dør på samme måte som alle andre mennesker, eller de hjemsøkes på samme måte som alle andre mennesker, da har Herren ikke sendt meg;
- OTB
- Hvis disse mennene dør en naturlig død, eller hvis de lider samme skjebne som alle mennesker, da har Herren ikke sendt meg.
- B1930
- Dersom disse folk dør på samme måte som alle andre mennesker, eller de hjemsøkes på samme måte som alle andre mennesker, da har Herren ikke sendt mig;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 22:28
And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
Read in contextLamentations 4:22
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:9
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Read in contextEcclesiastes 3:19
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Read in contextJob 35:15
But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
Read in context2 Chronicles 18:27
And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:3
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
Read in contextExodus 32:34
Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
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