All the people of Israel who were there fled when they heard their cry. They shouted, “Run! The earth might swallow us too!”
When you fight for us, nations run away from the noise of battle.
You will escape through this valley that divides the mountain in two. You will flee as your ancestors did when the earthquake struck in the time of King Uzziah of Judah. The Lord my God will come, bringing all the angels with him.
So they went down alive to the world of the dead, with their possessions. The earth closed over them, and they vanished.
Then the Lord sent a fire that blazed out and burned up the 250 men who had presented the incense.