Numbers 26:9

Numbers 26:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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:
• New International Version (NIV)and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. The same Dathan and Abiram were the community officials who rebelled against Moses and Aaron and were among Korah’s followers when they rebelled against the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, chosen from the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the Lord
• New King James Version (NKJV)The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, representatives of the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the Lord;

Context of Numbers 26:9

7These are the families of the Reubenites, and those who were numbered of them were 43,730. 8The son of Pallu: Eliab. The sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the Lord, 10and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, so that they became a warning. 11The sons of Korah, however, did not die.

Numbers 26:9 word by word

וּבְנֵ֣י אֱלִיאָ֔ב נְמוּאֵ֖ל וְדָתָ֣ן וַאֲבִירָ֑ם הֽוּא־דָתָ֨ן וַאֲבִירָ֜ם קְרִיאֵ֣י הָעֵדָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר הִצּ֜וּ עַל־מֹשֶׁ֤ה וְעַֽל־אַהֲרֹן֙ בַּעֲדַת־קֹ֔רַח בְּהַצֹּתָ֖ם עַל־יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• The sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• of Eliabאֱלִיאָב'ĕlîy'âb · EliabH446
• Nemuelנְמוּאֵלnemû'êl · NemuelH5241
• and Dathanדָּתָןdâthân · DathanH1885
• and Abiramאֲבִירָם'ăbîyrâm · AbiramH48
• Theseהוּאhû' hîy' · he/she/itH1931
• whoקָרִיאqârîy' · calledH7148
• by the congregationעֵדָה‛êdâh · congregationH5712
• whoאֲשֶׁר'ăsher · whichH834
• contendedנָצָהnâtsâh · to struggleH5327
• againstעַל‛al · uponH5921
• Mosesמֹשֶׁהmôsheh · MosesH4872
• Aaronאַהֲרֹן'ahărôn · AaronH175
• of Korahקֹ֫רַחqôrach · KorahH7141
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Numbers 26:9

• Numbers 16:2and they rose up before Moses, together with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen in the assembly, men of renown.
• Numbers 27:3“Our father died in the wilderness, yet he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.
• Exodus 16:35The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
• Psalms 106:17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.
• Numbers 16:38As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they did present them before the Lord and they are holy; and they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel.”
• 1 Samuel 2:34This will be the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them will die.
• Jeremiah 29:22Because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,
• Ezekiel 14:8I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among My people. So you will know that I am the Lord.
• 1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.
• 2 Peter 2:6and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;
• Jude 1:7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Commentaries on Numbers 26:9

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-11the line of Korah did not die out: See study note on 16:31–33 for more information.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-511. after the plague--That terrible visitation had swept away the remnant of the old generation, to whom God sware in His wrath that they should not enter Canaan (Psa 95:11).Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 26:9

• Abiram
• Citizens
• Dathan
• Eliab
• Korah
• Nemuel

In the dictionaries

• Aaron
• Korah
• Moses
• Korah, Korahite
• Abiram
• Dathan
• Eliab
• Inheritance
• Lot
• Nemuel

Commentaries on Numbers 26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings