SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:12
¶ Y envió Moisés a llamar a Datán y Abiram, hijos de Eliab; mas ellos respondieron: No iremos allá.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab , etc.] He sent messengers to call them to the house of judgment, as the Targum of Jonathan, to the court of judicature, where the Jews suppose Moses, with the seventy elders, were now sitting: it seems these two men departed either before. Moses rose up from prayer, or however before he had finished his speech to Korah and the Levites; which being particularly directed to them, these men might think they had no concern in it, and went away to their own tents: which said, we will not come up ; this answer they returned to the messengers, and by them to Moses, declaring that they denied his power, despised his authority, and would not obey his orders, and therefore refused to come up to the tabernacle, or to the tent of Moses, or to the court of judicature, wherever it was; perhaps the first is best. Aben Ezra thinks, that as the tabernacle was in the midst of the camp, it was on an eminence, wherefore those that came to it might be said to come up to it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-15 - Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram to bring their complaints; but the would not obey. They bring very false charges against Moses. Thos often fall under the heaviest censures, who in truth deserve the highest praise. Moses, though the meekest man, yet, finding God reproached in him, was very wroth; he could not bear to see the people ruining themselves. He appeals to God as to his own integrity. He bad them appear with Aaron next morning, at the time of offering the morning incense. Korah undertook thus to appear. Proud ambitious men while projecting their own advancement, often hurry on their ow shameful fall.
Original Hebrew
וישׁלח 7971 משׁה 4872 לקרא 7121 לדתן 1885 ולאבירם 48 בני 1121 אליאב 446 ויאמרו 559 לא 3808 נעלה׃ 5927
