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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Literal Standard Version

Psalms 106:18

And fire burns among their company, || A flame sets the wicked on fire.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Envy;   Wicked (People);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Patience;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Korah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hallelujah;   Psalms;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Korah;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Baal-peor;   Moloch;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Korah;   Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Fire blazed throughout their assembly;flames consumed the wicked.
Hebrew Names Version
A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.
King James Version
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
English Standard Version
Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
New Century Version
A fire burned among their followers, and flames burned up the wicked.
New English Translation
Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked.
Amplified Bible
And a fire broke out in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.
New American Standard Bible
And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.
World English Bible
A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the fire was kindled in their assembly: the flame burnt vp the wicked.
Legacy Standard Bible
And a fire burned up in their company;The flame consumed the wicked.
Berean Standard Bible
Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
Contemporary English Version
Then fire broke out and destroyed all of their followers.
Complete Jewish Bible
A fire blazed out against that group, the flames consumed the wicked.
Darby Translation
And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then a fire burned that mob of people. It burned those wicked people.
George Lamsa Translation
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Good News Translation
fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people.
Lexham English Bible
Also fire burned in their assembly; the flame devoured the wicked.
Literal Translation
And a fire burned in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The fyre was kyndled in their company, the flame brent vp the vngodly.
American Standard Version
And a fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.
Bible in Basic English
And a fire was lighted among their tents; the sinners were burned up by the flames.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
King James Version (1611)
And a fire was kindled in their company: the flame burnt vp the wicked.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the fire was kindled in their company: the flambe brent vp the vngodly.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And a fire was kindled in their congregation, and a flame burnt up the sinners.
English Revised Version
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And fier brente an hiye in the synagoge of hem; flawme brente synneris.
Update Bible Version
And a fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.
Webster's Bible Translation
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
New King James Version
A fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.
New Living Translation
Fire fell upon their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.
New Life Bible
And a fire came among their followers. It burned up the sinful people.
New Revised Standard
Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then was kindled a fire in their assembly, - a flame, consumed the lawless ones.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(105-18) And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.
Revised Standard Version
Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Young's Literal Translation
And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.

Contextual Overview

13They have hurried—forgotten His works, || They have not waited for His counsel. 14And they lust greatly in a wilderness, || And try God in a desert. 15And He gives to them their request, || And sends leanness into their soul. 16And they are envious of Moses in the camp, || Of Aaron, YHWH's holy one. 17Earth opens, and swallows up Dathan, || And covers over the company of Abiram. 18And fire burns among their company, || A flame sets the wicked on fire.19They make a calf in Horeb, || And bow themselves to a molten image, 20And change their glory || Into the form of an ox eating herbs. 21They have forgotten God their Savior, || The doer of great things in Egypt, 22Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, || Of fearful things by the Sea of Suph.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 16:35-40, Numbers 16:46, Hebrews 12:29

Reciprocal: Numbers 11:1 - and the fire Numbers 16:31 - General Numbers 26:10 - earth opened Judges 8:34 - remembered 2 Kings 1:10 - let fire 2 Kings 17:16 - molten images Acts 7:36 - and in the wilderness Revelation 20:9 - and fire

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And a fire was kindled in their company,.... This seems to be the company of Korah, or however a part of it, the two hundred and fifty men that had censers, and so were of the Levitical race, as Korah was; this fire came from the Lord out of heaven.

The flame burned up the wicked; the two hundred and fifty men with censers, Numbers 16:35, this was an emblem of that fire which shall consume those that hurt the witnesses; or of that vengeance of eternal fire which wicked men will suffer for ever.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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


 
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