Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
All the congregation took part with Dathan, Korah, etc., and their accomplices (Numbers 16:41).
Aaron the saint—literally, "the holy one," as consecrated priest; not a moral attribute, but one designating his office as holy to the Lord. The rebellion was followed by a double punishment: (1) of the non-Levitical rebels, the Reubenites, Dathan and Abiram, etc. (Deuteronomy 11:6; Numbers 26:10); these were swallowed up by the earth.
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