Numbers 16:33
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Numbers 16:33 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Numbers 16:33 is a verse from the book of Numbers in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished ..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Numbers 16:33 — KJV
“They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.”
— Numbers 16:33 (KJV)
Numbers 16:33 in Context — About the Book of Numbers
Numbers follows Israel through forty years of wilderness — a journey that should have taken eleven days. It is an honest record of grumbling, unbelief, and consequence, but also of God's patient provision: manna, water, guidance by cloud and fire, and the famous priestly blessing.
Cross-References for Numbers 16:33
“Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:”
Shares key themes with Numbers 16:33: down, alive, into
“When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;”
Shares key themes with Numbers 16:33: down, into, pit
“To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. their trees...: or, stand upon themselves for their height”
Shares key themes with Numbers 16:33: down, pit, earth
“I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.”
Shares key themes with Numbers 16:33: down, into, pit
“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.”
Shares key themes with Numbers 16:33: down, into, pit
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