Numbers 16:11
16:11 Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron – what is he that you murmur against him?” 1
Numbers 16:19
16:19 When 2 Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community.
Numbers 16:42
16:42 When the community assembled 3 against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting – and 4 the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
1 sn The question indicates that they had been murmuring against Aaron, that is, expressing disloyalty and challenging his leadership. But it is actually against the Lord that they had been murmuring because the Lord had put Aaron in that position.
2 tn This clause is clearly foundational for the clause that follows, the appearance of the Lord; therefore it should be subordinated to the next as a temporal clause (one preterite followed by another preterite may be so subordinated).
3 tn The temporal clause is constructed with the temporal indicator (“and it was”) followed by the Niphal infinitive construct and preposition.
4 tn The verse uses וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh, “and behold”). This is the deictic particle – it is used to point things out, suddenly calling attention to them, as if the reader were there. The people turned to look toward the tent – and there is the cloud!