Moses sent, to treat with them, and give them, as he had done Korah and his company, a timely admonition. Which said unto the messengers sent to them by Moses,
We will not come up, to Moses’s tabernacle, whither the people used to go up for judgment. Men are said in Scripture phrase to go up to places of judgment. See Deu_25:7Rth_4:1Ezr_10:7,8. But because they would not now go up, therefore they went down quick into the pit, Num_16:12.