Moses sent, to treat with them, and give them, as he had done Korah and his company, a timely admonition. Which said unto the messengers sent to them by Moses, We will not come up, to Moses's tabernacle, whither the people used to go up for judgment. Men are said in Scripture phrase to go up to places of judgment. See Deuteronomy 25:7 Ruth 4:1 Ezra 10:7,8. But because they would not now go up, therefore they went down quick into the pit, Numbers 16:12.
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Numbers 16:12
12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: