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Who is Korah?
        KO'RAH
     (baldness). 1. Third son of Esau and Aholibamah, Gen 36:5, Gen 36:14, Gen 36:18; 1 Chr 1:35; named as son of Eliphaz. Gen 36:16. 2. Son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, Ex 6:18, Ex 6:21, Ex 6:24, the proud and ambitious ringleader in the rebellion with Dathan, Abiram, and On, of the tribe of Reuben, against his cousins, Moses and Aaron. It was a widespread political rebellion against Moses, who held the leadership, to which the tribe of Reuben, the first-born, aspired, and from which they had been excluded, and an ecclesiastical rebellion against Aaron by Korah, a Levite, who, with his immediate relations, had been shut out of the higher priestly service to the inferior service of the tabernacle. With 250 men prominent in the congregation, they went to Moses and Aaron and impudently and impiously charged them with usurpation. Moses, astonished at the revolt -- the most serious that had taken place -- appealed to Jehovah by a test to be made the next day with censers. Then, after God had expressed his intention to destroy the people, and Moses and Aaron had interceded successfully for them, Moses warned them as to that which should follow; the earth opened and swallowed Dathan and Abiram and their followers and families, and fire from the Lord devoured Korah and the Levites who offered incense. Num 16; Num 26:9; 1 Sam 27:3. The children of Korah survived, and became prominent in the temple service. 1 Chr 6:22, 1 Chr 6:37; 1 Chr 9:19. Jude couples Korah (Core) with Cain and Balaam in his warning against false and self-seeking teachers, Jude 11. 3. A son of Hebron, and descendant of Judah. 1 Chr 2:43.


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