Psalms 106:17

World English Bible

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

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Because of this, the earth opened up; it swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and the other rebels.

English Revised Version
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Update Bible Version
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram.

New Century Version
Then the ground opened up and swallowed Dathan and closed over Abiram's group.

New English Translation
The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it engulfed the group led by Abiram.

Webster's Bible Translation
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Amplified Bible
Therefore the earth opened and swallowed Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.

English Standard Version
the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The erthe was opened, and swolewid Datan; and hilide on the congregacioun of Abiron.

Berean Standard Bible
The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

Contemporary English Version
Dathan and Abiram rebelled, and the earth opened up and swallowed them.

American Standard Version
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram.

Bible in Basic English
The earth opening put an end to Dathan, covering up Abiram and his band.

Complete Jewish Bible
The earth opened up and swallowed Datan and closed over Aviram's allies.

Darby Translation
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;

Easy-to-Read Version
The ground opened up and swallowed Dathan. Then the ground closed up and covered Abiram's group.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

King James Version (1611)
The earth opened and swallowed vp Dathan: and couered the company of Abiram.

New Life Bible
So the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan. It closed over the group of Abiram.

New Revised Standard
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the faction of Abiram.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore the earth opened & swallowed vp Dathan, & couered the companie of Abiram.

George Lamsa Translation
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Good News Translation
Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The earth opened and engulfed Dathan, and covered up the assembly of Abiram;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(105-17) The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.

Revised Standard Version
the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abi'ram.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So the earth opened and swalowed vp Dathan: and couered the company of Abiram.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiron.

Christian Standard Bible®
The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;it covered the assembly of Abiram.

Hebrew Names Version
The eretz opened and swallowed up Datan, And covered the company of Aviram.

King James Version
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.

Lexham English Bible
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and it covered over the gang of Abiram.

Literal Translation
the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; and covered the company of Abiram.

Young's Literal Translation
Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So the earth opened & swalowed vp Dathan, and couered the congregacio of Abiram.

New American Standard Bible
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.

New King James Version
The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, And covered the faction of Abiram.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.

Legacy Standard Bible
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,And covered up the company of Abiram.

Contextual Overview

¹³ They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel, ¹⁴ But gave in to craving in the desert, And tested God in the wasteland. ¹⁵ He gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul. ¹⁶ They envied Moses also in the camp, And Aaron, Yahweh's saint. ¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram. ¹⁸ A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped a molten image. ²⁰ Thus they exchanged their glory For an image of a bull that eats grass. ²¹ They forgot God, their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt, ²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 16:29-33, Numbers 26:10, Deuteronomy 11:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:31 - General Numbers 26:9 - General Psalms 21:9 - the Lord Psalms 56:1 - swallow Acts 7:36 - and in the wilderness

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,.... One of the heads of the conspirators against Moses and Aaron; the earth clave asunder under him and his company; opened itself, or its mouth, and devoured them at once. This was a new, marvellous, and unheard of thing, and which manifestly showed the divine displeasure and resentment at their proceedings; and served greatly to confirm the authority and office of Moses and Aaron; see Numbers 16:30.

And covered the company of Abiram; another of the heads of the confederacy. Korah is not mentioned, though the earth swallowed up him and all that belonged to him, their houses and their goods; some think the reason is because it was well known that this was his case, when Dathan and Abiram are not so expressly mentioned in the history by Moses; as also because the sons of Korah were now in esteem as singers; nor is On the son of Peleth mentioned, because, as Kimchi says, he repented, and desisted from the conspiracy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On these verses see Numbers 16:31-35. This refers to the time when they rebelled against Moses.