At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, "The earth may swallow us too!"
Cross References
Numbers 16:33They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
Numbers 16:35And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
Treasury of Scripture
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
fled
Isaiah 33:3
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
Zechariah 14:5
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
Revelation 6:15-17
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; …
lest
Numbers 17:12,13
And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish…
