Numbers 16:30

New International Version

But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.”

Cross References

Job 31:2

For what is our lot from God above, our heritage from the Almighty on high?

Job 31:3

Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?

Psalm 124:3

they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us;

Psalm 55:15

Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the realm of the dead, for evil finds lodging among them.

Isaiah 28:21

The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.

Isaiah 43:19

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

Isaiah 45:12

It is I who made the earth and created mankind on it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you wander, unfaithful Daughter Israel? The Lord will create a new thing on earth— the woman will return to the man.”

Ezekiel 31:14

Therefore no other trees by the waters are ever to tower proudly on high, lifting their tops above the thick foliage. No other trees so well-watered are ever to reach such a height; they are all destined for death, for the earth below, among mortals who go down to the realm of the dead.

Numbers 16:31

As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart

Numbers 16:33

They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.