Identifier: bibleitsstory1316horn (find matches)
Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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s dead; for new names are given to us as theirleaders, Dathan and Abiram. Possibly these youngermen sought to assert their birthriojht over the nation, aschiefs of the eldest tribe. At all events when Korah re-belled and Moses called on them for aid, they refused it,grumbling and asking if Moses meant to be altogethera prince over us. Also they declared that he was nofit leader, since he had not kept his promise to bring thepeople into a land of wealth and ease. Is it a small thingthat thou hast brought us up out of a land that flowethwith milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness ? Then Moses cried out to the rest of the people to sep-arate themselves hastily from Dathan and Abiram, andhe invoked God to send a strange and new doom uponthem as a warning to all others. Even as he spoke theground clave asunder under them. The earth opened,they, and all that appertained to them, went down aliveinto the pit and the earth closed upon them. Theyperished from among the congregation. ii-SO
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iiF Tt 3(i ^ ( ^ t/^ ^ #^ W\)t Jfire of atonement BY J. JAMES TISSOT. REPRODUCED BY THE COURTESYOF THE AMERICAN TISSOT SOCIETY^ OF NEW YORK. And he stood behveen the dead and the living; and theplague was stayed.—Num., 16, ^8. NOT yet was this grim punishment ended whichKorah had upstirred. The dissatisfaction hadbeen widespread; and though the leaders hadbeen slain and all active rebellion checked, yet on themorrow all the congregation of the children of Israelmurmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying.Ye have killed the people of the Lord. Doubtlessmany felt, as Dathan had, that Moses had broughtthem to no pleasant life. They forgot that it wastheir own cowardice and disobedience which were beingpunished. So they murmured; and God, seeing that punishmentmust extent yet further, sent a plague among them, so thatmany fell and died where they stood. And Moses saidunto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from offthe altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the con-g

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