The Meaning of Numbers 16:24 Explained

Numbers 16:24

KJV: Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

YLT: 'Speak unto the company, saying, Go ye up from round about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'

Darby: Speak unto the assembly, saying, Get you up from about the habitation of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

ASV: Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Speak  unto the congregation,  saying,  Get you up  from about  the tabernacle  of Korah,  Dathan,  and Abiram. 

What does Numbers 16:24 Mean?

Context Summary

Numbers 16:20-35 - Divine Judgment Upon The Rebels
It was wise of Moses not to attempt to vindicate himself, but to leave God to maintain His cause. He is not slow to undertake the vindication of those who entrust their reputation with Him. To take the sword is to perish by the sword. "Wait on the Lord and keep His way, and He will exalt thee to inherit the land."
The doom of Korah and his fellow-conspirators was very terrible; but if they had been spared, the whole camp would have been infected, and God's purposes frustrated. Those who suffer from the bubonic plague must be instantly separated from their fellows, for the sake of society! Remember, as Jude says, that the pit still devours, Judges 1:11. In these last days of the present age, and in view of the terrible records of this chapter, we may well ponder the summons of Revelation 18:4. The congregation was spared, because of the divine compassion of which Moses had a true conception. His prayer only reflected the divine thought, Numbers 16:22. [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 16

1  The rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram
23  Moses separates the people from the rebels' tents
31  The earth swallows up Korah, and a fire consumes others
36  The censers are reserved to holy use
41  14,700 are slain by a plague, for murmuring against Moses and Aaron
46  Aaron by incense stays the plague

What do the individual words in Numbers 16:24 mean?

speak to the congregation saying Get away from the tents of Korah Dathan and Abiram
דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶל־ הָעֵדָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר הֵֽעָלוּ֙ מִסָּבִ֔יב לְמִשְׁכַּן־ קֹ֖רַח דָּתָ֥ן וַאֲבִירָֽם

דַּבֵּ֥ר  speak 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperative, masculine singular
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
הָעֵדָ֖ה  the  congregation 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: עֵדָה  
Sense: congregation, gathering.
לֵאמֹ֑ר  saying 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
הֵֽעָלוּ֙  Get  away 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Imperative, masculine plural
Root: סָלַק 
Sense: to go up, ascend, climb.
לְמִשְׁכַּן־  the  tents 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: מִשְׁכָּן  
Sense: dwelling place, tabernacle.
קֹ֖רַח  of  Korah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: קֹרַח  
Sense: son of Izhar, grandson of Kohath, great grandson of Levi and leader of the rebellion of the Israelites against Moses and Aaron while in the wilderness; punished and died by an earthquake and flames of fire.
דָּתָ֥ן  Dathan 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: דָּתָן  
Sense: a Reubenite chief, son of Eliab, who, with his brother, Abiram, joined Korah’s conspiracy against Moses’ authority.
וַאֲבִירָֽם  and  Abiram 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֲבִירָם  
Sense: a Reubenite, son of Eliab in exodus.

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