Numbers 16:49 - Exposition

Fourteen thousand and seven hundred. A very large number to have died in the course of a few minutes, as the narrative seems to imply. The plague was undoubtedly of a supernatural character, and cannot be considered as a pestilence or other natural visitation. Beside them that died about the matter of Korah. These were

Thus we get the round number of 15,000 as the total of those that perished on this occasion.