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Num 26:10 — And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

earth opened		Num 16:2,31-35,38; Num 27:3; Exd 16:35; Psa 106:17,18
together		"The Samaritan text does not intimate that Korah was swallowed up, but that he was burnt, as appears to have been the fact; and the Psalmist also, (Psa 106:17,) only mentions Dathan and Abiram as having been swallowed up. ""And the earth swallowed them up, what time that company died; and the fire devoured Korah with the 250 men, who became a sign."""
they became a sign		Num 16:38; 1Sa 2:34; Jer 29:22; Eze 14:8; 1Cr 10:6-10; 2Pe 2:6; Jud 1:7

Correlating Passages

earth opened

	Num 16:2	And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
	Num 16:31	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:
	Num 16:32	And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto Korah, and all [their] goods.
	Num 16:33	They, and all that [appertained] to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
	Num 16:34	And all Israel that [were] round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also].
	Num 16:35	And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
	Num 16:38	The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates [for] a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
	Num 27:3	Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
	Exd 16:35	And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
	Psa 106:17	The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
	Psa 106:18	And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

together

Psa 106:17

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

they became a sign

	Num 16:38	The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates [for] a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
	1Sa 2:34	And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
	Jer 29:22	And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
	Eze 14:8	And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
	1Cr 10:6	Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
	1Cr 10:7	Neither be ye idolaters, as [were] some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
	1Cr 10:8	Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
	1Cr 10:9	Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
	1Cr 10:10	Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
	2Pe 2:6	And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
	Jud 1:7	Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

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Scott, Thomas. "Numbers 26:10," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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