Num. 14:1‑10• 1And the whole assembly lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole assembly said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness would that we had died!
3And why is Jehovah bringing us to this land that we may fall by the sword, that our wives and our little ones may become a prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?
4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
5Then Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of the children of Israel.
6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of them that searched out the land, rent their garments.
7And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.
8If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;
9only rebel not against Jehovah; and fear not the people of the land; for they shall be our food. Their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
10And the whole assembly said that they should be stoned with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel. (Num. 14:1‑10)
Num. 16:1‑35• 1And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, made bold, and with him Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben;
2and they rose up against Moses, with two hundred and fifty men of the children of Israel, princes of the assembly, summoned to the council, men of renown;
3and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, It is enough; for all the assembly, all of them are holy, and Jehovah is among them; and why do ye lift up yourselves above the congregation of Jehovah?
4When Moses heard this, he fell on his face.
5And he spoke to Korah and to all his band, saying, Even to-morrow will Jehovah make known who is his, and who is holy; and he will cause him to come near to him; and him whom he has chosen, him will he cause to come near to him.
6This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his band,
7and put fire therein, and lay incense thereon before Jehovah to-morrow; and it shall be that the man whom Jehovah doth choose, he shall be holy. It is enough, ye sons of Levi!
8And Moses said to Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi!
9Is it too little for you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the assembly of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the work of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the assembly to minister to them?
10--that he has brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee; and seek ye now the priesthood also?
11For which cause thou and all thy band are banded together against Jehovah; and Aaron, who is he that ye murmur against him?
12And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said, We will not come up!
13Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that thou must make thyself altogether a ruler over us?
14Moreover, thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up!
15Then Moses was very wroth, and said to Jehovah, Have no regard to their oblation: not one ass have I taken from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
16And Moses said to Korah, Be thou and all thy band before Jehovah, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow.
17And take each his censer, and put incense thereon, and present before Jehovah every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; and thou, and Aaron, each his censer.
18And they took each his censer, and put fire on them, and laid incense thereon, and stood before the entrance to the tent of meeting, as well as Moses and Aaron.
19And Korah gathered the whole assembly against them to the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the assembly.
20And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
21Separate yourselves from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them in a moment.
22And they fell on their faces, and said, O *God, the God of the spirits of all flesh! shall *one* man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with the whole assembly?
23And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
24Speak unto the assembly, saying, Get you up from about the habitation of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
25And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
26And he spoke to the assembly, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye perish in all their sins.
27And they got up from the habitation of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the entrance of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
28And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these deeds, for they are not out of my own heart:
29if these men die as all men die, and are visited with the visitation of all men, Jehovah has not sent me;
30but if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.
31And it came to pass when he had ended speaking all these words, that the ground clave apart that was under them.
32And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property.
33And they went down, they and all that they had, alive into Sheol, and the earth covered them; and they perished from among the congregation.
34And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up!
35And there came out a fire from Jehovah, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that had presented incense. (Num. 16:1‑35)
Psa. 78:8‑72• 8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with *God.
9The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
12In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
13He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;
14And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
15He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
16And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
18And they tempted *God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
19And they spoke against God: they said, Is *God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?
21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:
22Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,
24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
25Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
26He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;
27And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:
29And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
30They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
31When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;
33And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
34When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after *God;
35And they remembered that God was their rock, and *God, the Most High, their redeemer.
36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;
37For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
39And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41And they turned again and tempted *God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
42They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,
43How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;
44And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;
45He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;
46And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;
47He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;
48And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress,--a mission of angels of woes.
50He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.
52And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
53And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.
54And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;
55And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
57And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
58And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,
61And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;
62And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:
63The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in nuptial song;
64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
65Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;
66And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.
67And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;
69And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.
70And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands. (Psa. 78:8‑72)