So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 27. People, (frequentiâ). The Septuagint generally translate tappam by aposkene, “family and effects,” of every denomination. Calmet.—Here was a full assembly waiting for the event, between fear and hope. As these rebels would not come, when Moses sent for them, he condescended to go to them, and denounced the impending ruin, verse 14, 25. He commits his whole cause to God, and is willing to be rejected as a vile impostor, if God do not shew, by a miraculous and exemplary punishment of his opponents, that what he had hitherto done, as the head of the people, and particularly in the consecration of Aaron, was by his direction. Bible.—He had before proved his mission by miracles. Exodus 4. Worthington.