Numbers 16:33 · KJV
“They, and all that {appertained} to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.”
— Numbers 16:33
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that {appertained} unto Korah, and all {their} goods.
And all Israel that {were} round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up {also}.
Numbers 16 — Context
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that {was} under them:
32And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that {appertained} unto Korah, and all {their} goods.
33They, and all that {appertained} to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
34And all Israel that {were} round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up {also}.
35And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Cross References
Isaiah 14:15
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Psalms 55:23
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. {bloody...: Heb. men of bloods and deceit} {shall...: Heb. shall not half their days}
Psalms 143:7
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. {lest...: or, for I am become like, etc}
Ezekiel 32:18
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, {even} her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 69:15
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Ezekiel 32:30
There {be} the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with {them that be} slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Jude 1:11
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Psalms 9:15
The heathen are sunk down in the pit {that} they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.