If we look only at Numbers 16, it would seem that Korah and his entire family were destroyed. Yet it is clearly pointed out in Numbers 26:11 that the family line of Korah wasn't wiped out. We aren't given a reason for what happened that though the tents of his family fell into a pit some survived. It causes me to think that perhaps some of the complete brutality some claim God showed isn't what they say it is. Whatever did ultimately happen we will see the sons of Korah later. The sons of Korah are credited with writing eleven different Psalms: Psalms 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 84, 85, 87, 88. Whatever the father of this line was like it seems to me that the apple clearly did not fall close to the tree (they weren't like him).
Another note in this chapter made at the very end is that other than Joshua and Caleb, no one numbered at the beginning of the book is alive when this numbering took place. As God had said they would all die. One bad choice can change your destiny forever. One bad choice can remove you from the promised land God had in mind for you. Yes, Jesus forgives but actions still have consequences.
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