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our God and Redeemer, we should see ourselves bound in duty, interest, and gratitude, to keep all his commandments.
40 that ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy
unto your God.
41 I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.
Numbers-16
Korah’s Rebellion
1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi,
and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
2 and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of
Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
3 and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against
Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord ?
I. An account of the rebels, who and what they were, not, as formerly, the mixed multitude and the dregs of the people, who are therefore never named, but men of distinction and quality, that made a figure. Korah was the ring-leader: he formed and headed the faction; therefore it is called the gainsaying of Korah, Jude 1:11. He was cousin-german to Moses, they were brothers' children, yet the nearness of the relation could not restrain him from being insolent and rude to Moses. Think it not strange if a man's foes be those of his own house. With him joined Dathan and Abiram, chief men of the tribe of Reuben, the eldest son of Jacob. Probably Korah was disgusted both at the preferment of Aaron to the priesthood and the constituting of Elizaphan to the head of the Kohathites (Nu 3:30); and perhaps the Reubenites were angry that the tribe of Judah had the first post of honour in the