Psalms 105:17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Aperta est terra, et deglutivit Dathan, et operuit super congregationem Abiron.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἠνοίχθη ἡ γῆ καὶ κατέπιεν Δαθάν, καὶ ἐκάλυψεν ἐπὶ τὴν συναγωγὴν Ἀβειρών·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:17
- תִּפְתַּח אֶ֭רֶץ וַתִּבְלַ֣ע דָּתָ֑ן וַ֝תְּכַ֗ס עַל עֲדַ֥ת אֲבִירָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Abiron. With Core, though his children were preserved. (Calmet)
God presently resented the injury done to his ministers. (Eusebius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVI
15. “The earth opened,” he saith, “and swallowed up Dathan, and covered over the congregation of Abiram” ( ver. 17 ): “swallowed up” answereth to “covered over.” Both Dathan and Abiram were equally concerned in a most sacrilegious schism.