And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
And will make him a sign - literally, 'I will destroy him х wahªsimotiyhuw (H8074)] so as to become a sign;' it will be no ordinary destruction, but such as will make him to be an object pointed at with wonder by all-a signal warning to others, as Korah and his company were made (Numbers 26:10; Deuteronomy 28:37). Rosenmuller reads, as in Bomberg's edition of 1525, and as the old versions and the English version, 'I will put (or make) him a sign' [from suwm (H7760), to put]. But the harder reading is more likely to be the genuine one, being not so likely to be a correction of transcribers.