Numbers 26:11 - Exposition

The children of Korah died not. The confused nature of the narrative in Numbers 16:1-50 is well exemplified by this statement; we should certainly have supposed from Numbers 16:32 that Korah's sons had perished with him, if we were not here told to the contrary. The sons of Korah are frequently mentioned among the Levites, and Samuel himself would seem to have been of them (see on 1 Chronicles 6:22 , 1 Chronicles 6:28 , 1 Chronicles 6:33-38 , and titles to Psalms 42:1-11 ; Psalms 88:1-18 , &c.;); it is, however, slightly doubtful whether the Kohathite Korah of 1 Chronicles 6:22 , the ancestor of Samuel, is the same as the Izharite Korah, the ancestor of Heman, in 1 Chronicles 6:38 .