Numbers 16:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Make a new thing, i.e. do such a work as was never heard before. Into the pit, i.e. into the grave which God thereby makes. The Hebrew word scheol sometimes signifies hell, and sometimes the grave, as Genesis 37:35 Psalms 55:15. Have provoked the Lord by making his words and works to be nothing but my devices and artifices.

Numbers 16:30

30 But if the LORD makea 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 the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.