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Psalms 106:18

106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

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A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

What does Psalms 106:18 mean?

Psalms 106:18 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include אֵשׁ (ʼêsh), בָּעַר (bâʻar), עֵדָה (ʻêdâh).

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And
a
fireאֵשׁʼêsh/aysh/H784fire (literally or figuratively)
was
kindledבָּעַרbâʻar/baw-ar'/H1197to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be(-come) brutish
in
their
company;עֵדָהʻêdâh/ay-daw'/H5712a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
the
flameלֶהָבָהlehâbâh/leh-aw-baw'/H3852{a flash; figuratively, a sharply polished blade or point of aweapon}
burned
upלָהַטlâhaṭ/law-hat'/H3857properly, to lick, i.e. (by implication) to blaze
the
wicked.רָשָׁעrâshâʻ/raw-shaw'/H7563morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person

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Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 106:18.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

Exodus 22:6

If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

Exodus 3:2

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Exodus 35:3

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

Joel 1:19

O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. pastures: or, habitations

Joel 2:3

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

Leviticus 6:12

And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.

Psalms 83:14

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

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What does Psalms 106:18 say?

Psalms 106:18 (King James Version) reads: "And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked."

Is Psalms 106:18 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 106:18 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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