Teks -- Numbers 16:31 (NET)

16:31 When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

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JFB: Num 16:28-34 - Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works

The awful catastrophe of the earthquake which, as predicted by Moses, swallowed up those impious rebels in a living tomb, gave the divine attestation to the mission of Moses and struck the spectators with solemn awe.

TSK: Num 16:31

Num 26:10, Num 26:11, Num 27:3; Deu 11:6; Psa 106:17, Psa 106:18

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Gill: Num 16:31 - And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these things // that the ground clave asunder that was under them

And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these things,.... As soon as he had finished his discourse, which was addressed to the congregation, and, according to Josephus ^u, after a long prayer to God, which that writer gives at large; immediately so it was:

that the ground clave asunder that was under them; on which they stood, not from any natural cause, as by subterranean volcano, forcibly making their way and bursting the earth, and so getting vent, which has been thought to be the cause of earthquakes; but this was by the immediate hand and almighty power of God, and came to pass just as Moses suggested it would, and as soon as he had uttered his words, which made it the more observable.