Numbers 16:33

WEB

So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

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.

Commentary

They, and all that appertained unto them, went down alive into the pit,.... The grave which the opening earth made for them, they and t heir families: and the earth closed upon them; and covered them over; this it did of itself, as Aben Ezra remarks: this was a wonderful instance of almighty power, that it should open in such large fissures as to swallow up such a number of men, with their tents, goods, and cattle, and then close again so firmly, as not to have the least appearance upon it of what had happened, as Josephus observes (z): and they perished from among the congregation; and had a name and a place no more with them. (z) Antiqu. ut supra, (l. 4. c. 3.) sect. 3.