Note (return) — Rev. ANDREW LEE, A.M. (continued 5)

When sundry of the princes of Israel rebelled against God in the wilderness, and attempted a subversion of the government which God had instituted for his people, they did not perish alone, but their families perished with them, though no intimations are given that they were all partakers in their sin—yea, though it is more than intimated that some of them were not capable of partaking in it —"They came out and stood in the doors of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones." And as soon as Moses had warned the congregation, and foretold the manner of their death, "the ground clave asunder that was under them, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses—and they and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth doted upon them; and they perished." [112]