Kommentar zu Bamidbar 16:27

יצאו נצבים [AND DATHAN AND ABIRAM] CAME OUT, STATIONING THEMSELVES [AT THE ENTRANCE OF THEIR TENT] — The word נצבים suggests that they stood with erect stature in a challenging attitude, ready to revile and to curse. The phrase is similar in meaning to (I Samuel 17:16) “And he stationed himself (ויתיצב) there for forty days”, which occurs in the story of Goliath (Midrash Tanchuma, Korach 3).

ויעלו מעל קרח ודתן ואבירם, They lifted themselves up from the residence of Korach, etc. The effrontery of Datan and Aviram in continuing to maintain a defiant posture though they had already been abandoned by their fellow travelers who had withdrawn in fear of being punished together with them, made a suitable impression on Moses so that he announced that the people would witness Divine intervention by the manner in which these people were going to die. This was to prove that he had not appointed himself as their leader but that G'd had appointed him at the time. The words את כל המעשים האלה mean that everything Moses had done including insignificant appearing things were all carried out at G'd's instruction. He now said that not only would these people die immediately but they would die a particularly gruesome death.

With haughty bearing. Rashi is answering the question: What is meant by “went out and stood”? It is obvious that they did not go out while sitting! (Re’m). There is another question: What is meant by “went out and stood”? The word “went out” implies that they were moving, while the word “stood” implies that they were still. Rashi answers this question by explaining “to revile and blaspheme…”

V. 27. נצבים, in kecker aufgerichteter Stellung.

ונשיהם ובניהם וטפם AND THEIR WIVES, AND THEIR SONS, AND THEIR LITTLE ONES — Come and see how grievous a sin dissension is: for an earthly tribunal (more lit., a tribunal of here below) does not punish a person before he shows signs of puberty, the heavenly tribunal (more lit., the tribunal of above) not even before he is twenty years old, while here even the sucklings perished (Midrash Tanchuma, Korach 3).

As He stood for forty days in connection to Golias. And there it states, "I have blasphemed against Hashem, God of Yisrael." (source)

How inexorably destructive disputes are. (Gur Aryeh) The Torah does not mention their punishment here, only their brazen wickedness in that they “went out and stood.” Nonetheless, one can learn from this that the minors were also punished, since the Torah recalls their sin. [Why was this necessary?] Surely a minor is not liable for punishment, given that he lacks sufficient intelligence. Rather one must say that Scripture comes to teach that they were all punished, both adults and minors, because the sin of dispute is not like other sins. You might ask: How is this sin different from other sins, such that even minors are punished? The answer is that dispute and gehinnom were created at the same time, on the second day of Creation. This is in order to teach that dispute and gehinnom are fundamentally linked, thus the punishment for dispute is inevitably gehinnom. Gur Aryeh goes into detail to explain the reasoning for this.