Numbers 16

The people of God have sins of daily incursion; and besides these, sometimes they lapse into great sins, and God is provoked, and his justice is ready to break forth upon them; but Christ's intercession is ready at hand, he daily makes up the breaches between God and them; he pr…

As he will wipe off tears from their eyes, so dust from their name. Moses when he was charged with ambition, that he took too much upon him, comforted himself with this, Tomorrow will the Lord show who are his (Numbers 16:5). So may the saints when reproached, comfort themselves…

The dulness of many in seeking after heaven is such, as if they did not believe there were such a kingdom, or as if it would not outweigh their labor, or as if they thought it were indifferent whether they obtained this kingdom or no, which is as much as to say, whether they wer…

They had the first lot, (Joshua 21:10). But as they were lifted up above others of the Levites in honor, so in pride, (Numbers 16:3). In the Thames when the tide rises higher, the boat rises higher; so when the tide of an estate rises higher, many men's hearts rise higher in pri…

Verse 14. The Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do. The second, Aaron's making an atonement for the people whereby the plague was stayed (Numbers 16:46). Take a censer quickly, for wrath is begun.

Which was the thing that caused both the apostles, Peter and Paul, and also the prophets so often to record and inculcate it. This caused Moses to say (Numbers 16): I have not taken so much as an ass from them: neither have I hurt any of them. And Samuel also (1 Samuel 12): You…

Now the train-bands are up in arms watching at every quarter for foreign men, because of the general fears and jealousies, and rumors that fire-balls were thrown into houses by several of them, to help on and provoke the too furious flames. Now goods are hastily removed from the…

And yet we must observe, that though Moses was the meekest man in the world, yet when God's honor and glory were concerned, none more warm and zealous; witness his resentment of the golden calf, when in a holy indignation at that abominable iniquity, he deliberately broke the ta…

The women reproved for offering incense to the Queen of heaven, did it not without their husbands, yet were they not excused thereby (Jeremiah 44:19). The children and others in the family submitted themselves to Dathan and Abiram in standing in the door of their tents at defian…

If they had a magistrate to choose, they go to God (Numbers 27:16): Let the Lord, the God of the Spirits of all Flesh, set a man over the congregation. If a judgment to be averted (Numbers 16:22): O God, the God of the Spirits of all Flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be ang…

This is the hideous and direful destruction that hardness of heart has wrought. Go, rebellious sinner, into the wilderness, into the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram: see them rising up against the Lord and his officers, and reproaching their persons and proceedings, "You take…

This woman escaped one judgment, for she fell not by the destruction of Sodom; yet she was destroyed by another, as we see: she is turned into a pillar of salt. Hopeful: True, and she may be to us both caution and example; caution, that we should shun her sin; or a sign of what…