Korah

Gender: Male

Years: -1700 - 66

Dictionary Text: A Levite, the son of Izhar, the brother of Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron. The institution of the Aaronic priesthood and the Levitical service at Sinai was a great religious revolution. The old priesthood of the heads of families passed away. This gave rise to murmurings and discontent, while the Israelites were encamped at Kadesh for the first time, which came to a head in a rebellion against Moses and Aaron, headed by Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Two hundred and fifty princes, “men of renown” i.e., well-known men from among the other tribes, joined this conspiracy. The whole company demanded of Moses and Aaron that the old state of things should be restored, alleging that “they took too much upon them”. On the morning after the outbreak, Korah and his associates presented themselves at the door of the tabernacle, and “took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon.” But immediately “fire from the Lord” burst forth and destroyed them all. Dathan and Abiram “came out and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children,” and it came to pass “that the ground clave asunder that was under them; and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up.” A plague thereafter began among the people who sympathized in the rebellion, and was only stayed by Aaron’s appearing between the living and the dead, and making “an atonement for the people”. The descendants of the sons of Korah who did not participate in the rebellion afterwards rose to eminence in the Levitical service.

Disambiguation Notes: Korah(sons of Izhar)

Family Members

• Father: Izhar
• Siblings:
  • Nepheg
  • Shelomoth
  • Zichri
• Children:
  • Ebiasaph
  • Assir
  • Elkanah

Verses

• Numbers 16:49: Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
• Numbers 16:8: And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
• Psalms 85:1: LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
• Numbers 16:1: 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:
• Exodus 6:21: And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
• 1 Chronicles 6:37: The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
• Numbers 16:32: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
• Jude 1:11: Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
• 1 Chronicles 9:19: And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.
• Numbers 26:10: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
• Numbers 26:11: Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
• Numbers 16:6: This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
• Psalms 44:1: We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
• Numbers 16:16: And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
• Psalms 42:1: As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
• Psalms 49:1: Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
• Numbers 16:24: Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
• Numbers 16:19: And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
• Exodus 6:24: And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.
• 1 Chronicles 6:22: The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
• Numbers 16:5: And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
• Numbers 27:3: Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
• Numbers 26:9: And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
• Numbers 16:27: So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
• Psalms 87:1: His foundation is in the holy mountains.
• Numbers 16:40: To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.