Numbers 16:46

16:46

<06440> [from off.]

put ......... place <05414 07760> [and put.]

atonement <03722> [an atonement.]

wrath <07110> [there is wrath.]

plague ... begun <05063 02490> [the plague is begun.]

God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not "the people of the Lord," and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them.