Deuteronomy 11:6; Numbers 16:29-33; Numbers 26:10
On these verses see Numbers 16:31-35 . This refers to the time when they rebelled against Moses.
The earth opened and (i) swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. (i) By the greatness of the punishment the heinousness of the offen...
CVI. Israel's Sin. Psalms 106:1-5 . Introduction. Praise to Yahweh for His power and greatness. The writer's desire to share in Israel's joy....
Dathan... Abiram. Korah not mentioned; not because of being an "older tradition" (as alleged), butbecause the "sons of Korah" were spared. See Psa...
17 The earth opened The heinousness of their sin may be seen in the magnitude of the punishment by which it was visited. But the design of t...
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: -Three transgressions of Israel in the wilderness are detailed, rising in gradati...
As Psalms 105 gives thanks for God's goodness, so Psalms 106 confesses Israel's sin and acknowledges God's mercy, both being illustrated in an hi...
(13-33) These twenty verses cover the desert wanderings, beginning with the discontented spirit mentioned in Exodus 15:23 .
(16-18) The poet has Numbers 16:17 in his mind.
The omission of Korah is in keeping with the historical accounts, which indicate a difference both in the attitude of Korah and his family from that...
Psalms 106:1-48 THE history of God's past is a record of continuous mercies, the history of man's, one of as continuous sin. The memory of the for...
Judgment Restrained by Intercession Psalms 106:16-33 The strife between the ungodly and the servants of God has characterized all the centuries...
The previous psalm called the people to talk of the “marvellous works” of Jehovah. This one calls to praise, and the reason is that “His mercy endure...
I include all these verses within one reading, though the Reader will recollect that they refer to several very interesting transactions at different...
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan ,.... One of the heads of the conspirators against Moses and Aaron; the earth clave asunder under him and h...
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. Ver. 17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, &c. ] Korah is...
They envied Moses also His authority; in the camp As generalissimo of the armies of Israel, and chief justice in all their courts; and Aaron Th...
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness. 13 They soon forgat his work...
Dathan, with his company, which is sufficiently understood out of the following clause, and out of the history, Num 16 .
INTRODUCTION “This it the first of a series of Hallelujah Psalms: Psalms of which the word Hallelujah is, as it were, the inscription (106, 111–113,...
This Psalm relates the story of God's mercy to Israel, of the people's provocation of Jehovah, and of his great patience with them. It commences with...
In this Psalm we have the story of God's ancient covenant people, and as we read it, we may read our own history in it if we also are his people. It...
Psalms 106:1 . Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. In this Psalm we have the histor...
This also is a Psalm of David, and is cited in 1 Chronicles 16 ., although the first and the two last verses only are there given. The subject is si...
They envied Moses. Religious envy and its doom I. Religious envy. 1. Envy is the chief in many respects of the principalities and powers of...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the strictly "Hallelujah psalms"— i.e. of the psalms beginning with the phrase "hallelujah"—which are Psalms 1...
God's Blessings in Spite of Israel's Unfaithfulness. This psalm, whose author is not known, gives a detailed confession of the sins of Israel, as...
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram, Numbers 16, 23-35.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.