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Numbers 26:9 KJV
Numbers · chapter 26 · verse 9
And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:Numbers 26:9 · King James Version
Numbers 26:9 in context
7These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
8And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
9And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
10And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
11Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- congregationʻêdâha stated assemblageH5712 →
- NemuelNᵉmûwʼêlNemuel, the name of two IsraelitesH5241 →
- DathanDâthânDathan, an IsraeliteH1885 →
- AbiramʼĂbîyrâmAbiram, the name of two IsraelitesH48 →
- famousqârîyʼcalledH7148 →
- famousqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
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This is the register of the tribes as they were now enrolled, in the same order that they were numbered in ch. 1. Observe, I. The account that is here kept of the families of each tribe, which must not be understood of such as we call families, those that live in a house together, but such as were the descendants of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-51