Contradiction with Numbers 16:30
While Psalms 106:18 speaks of fire consuming the wicked, this verse describes the earth swallowing them alive, a different mode of divine retribution.
Numbers 16:30: But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. [make...: Heb. create a creature]
Contradiction with Numbers 16:32
Contradicts by describing the earth opening and swallowing people, rather than being consumed by fire as in Psalms 106:18.
Numbers 16:32: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto Korah, and all [their] goods.
Contradiction with Numbers 16:35
Although similar to Psalms 106:18, this verse describes fire as coming directly from the Lord, creating a subtle distinction in the source and manner of punishment.
Numbers 16:35: And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Contradiction with Deuteronomy 11:17
Focuses on the withholding of rain and subsequent famine as punishment, contrasting the immediate fiery destruction in Psalms 106:18.
Deuteronomy 11:17: And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Contradiction with Amos 7:4
Depicts a consuming fire that devours a great deep rather than people, which changes the scope and target of the fiery judgment compared to Psalms 106:18.
Amos 7:4: Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
Contradiction with Numbers 26:10
Recounts the earth swallowing the offenders, differing from the scenario in Psalms 106:18 where fire is the destructive force.
Numbers 26:10: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.