Numbers 16:30

New International Reader's Version

But the Lord will make something totally new happen. The ground will open its mouth and swallow them up. It will swallow up everything that belongs to them. They will be buried alive. When that happens, you will know that these men have disrespected the Lord.”

Cross References

Job 31:2

What do we receive from God above? What do we get from the Mighty One in heaven?

Job 31:3

Sinful people are destroyed. Trouble comes to those who do what is wrong.

Psalm 124:3

Suppose he had not been on our side when their burning anger blazed out against us. Then they would have swallowed us alive.

Psalm 55:15

Let death take my enemies by surprise. Let them be buried alive, because their hearts and homes are full of evil.

Isaiah 28:21

The Lord will rise up to judge, just as he did at Mount Perazim. He will get up to act, just as he did in the Valley of Gibeon. He’ll do his work, but it will be strange work. He’ll carry out his task, but it will be an unexpected one.

Isaiah 43:19

I am about to do something new. It is beginning to happen even now. Don’t you see it coming? I am going to make a way for you to go through the desert. I will make streams of water in the dry and empty land.

Isaiah 45:12

I made the earth. I created human beings to live there. My own hands spread out the heavens. I put all the stars in their places.

Isaiah 45:7

I cause light to shine. I also create darkness. I bring good times. I also create hard times. I do all these things. I am the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you wander, my people Israel, who are not faithful to me? I will create a new thing on earth. The woman will return to the man.”

Ezekiel 31:14

So trees that receive plenty of water must never grow so high that it makes them proud. Their tops must never be above the rest of the leaves. No other trees that receive a lot of water must ever grow that high. They are appointed to die and go down into the earth below. They will join human beings, who go down to the place of the dead.”

Numbers 16:31

As soon as Moses finished saying all these words, what he had said came true. The ground under them broke open.

Numbers 16:33

They went down into the grave alive. Everything they owned went down with them. The ground closed over them and they died. And so they disappeared from the community.