Psalms 106:17

WEB

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

KJV

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

BSB

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

FBV

¹⁷The earth split open and swallowed up Dathan; it buried Abiram and his followers.

Extra References

Deuteronomy 11:6

⁶and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;

Numbers 16:29-33

²⁹If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then the LORD hasn’t sent me. ³⁰But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol,^[+] then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.”

³¹As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart. ³²The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods. ³³So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol.^[+] The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Numbers 26:10

¹⁰and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.