Day 12 - Swallowed up by the Earth (Spooky/Scary/Weird stories from the Bible)
Biblical stories that could make good horror/paranormal movies
Today’s story is one of punishment for some people who rebelled against Moses. During the Hebrew peoples’ time in the wilderness, three men - Korah, Dathan, and Abiram - gathered 250 other men and rebelled against the authority of Moses and Aaron. So Moses set up a test for them to show who should be the leader:
Numbers 16:16 And Moses said to Korah, “As for you and all your congregation, be present tomorrow before the Lord, you and they and Aaron, 17 and let each one of you take his censer and put incense on it and each one of you present his censer before the Lord, two hundred fifty censers, you also, and Aaron, each his censer.” 18 So each man took his censer, and they put fire in the censers and laid incense on them, and they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. 19 Then Korah assembled the whole congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole congregation.
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31b … the ground under them was split apart. 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households—everyone who belonged to Korah and all their goods. 33 So they with all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. 34 All Israel around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth will swallow us, too!” 35 And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty men offering the incense.
Swallowed up by the earth! That’s a dramatic image, isn’t it? The 40 years in the wilderness includes many stories of harsh punishments. Even this one, the death of 250, is immediately followed with the people rebelling against Moses because of the 250 swallowed up by the earth and God punishes them by killing 14,700 of them with a deadly plague until Aaron intervenes to stop it. That’s a whole Halloween-style movie just in this one chapter of Numbers!
All text is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.
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