Alive Appertain Belongs Brings Clear Contempt Creates Descend Despised Entirely Grave Ground Honoured Mouth Open Opened Opening Opens Pit Provoked Quick Sheol Spurned Strange Swallow Swallowed Swallows Theirs Totally Treated Understand Underworld
16:30 But if the LORD make {m} 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 {n} the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
(m) Or, show a strange sight.
(n) Or, deep and dark places of the earth.
16:23-34 The seventy elders of Israel attend Moses. It is our duty to do what we can to countenance and support lawful authority when it is opposed. And those who would not perish with sinners, must come out from among them, and be separate. It was in answer to the prayer of Moses, that God stirred up the hearts of the congregation to remove for their own safety. Grace to separate from evil-doers is one of the things that accompany salvation. God, in justice, left the rebels to the obstinacy and hardness of their own hearts. Moses, by Divine direction, when all Israel were waiting the event, declares that if the rebels die a common death, he will be content to be called and counted an imposter. As soon as Moses had spoken the word, God caused the earth to open and swallow them all up. The children perished with their parents; in which, though we cannot tell how bad they might be to deserve it, or how good God might be otherwise to them; yet of this we are sure, that Infinite Justice did them no wrong. It was altogether miraculous. God has, when he pleases, strange punishments for the workers of iniquity. It was very significant. Considering how the earth is still in like manner loaded with the weight of man's sins, we have reason to wonder that it does not now sink under its load. The ruin of others should be our warning. Could we, by faith, hear the outcries of those that are gone down to the bottomless pit, we should give more diligence than we do to escape for our lives, lest we also come into their condemnation.
Alive Appertain Belongs Contempt Creates Descend Despised Earth Entirely Mouth New Open Opens Pit Provoked Quick Sheol Something Spurned Swallow Swallows Theirs Totally Treated Understand
Alive Appertain Belongs Contempt Creates Descend Despised Earth Entirely Mouth New Open Opens Pit Provoked Quick Sheol Something Spurned Swallow Swallows Theirs Totally Treated Understand
