Who was Dathan?

Welled; belonging to a fountain, a son of Eliab, a Reubenite, who joined Korah (q. v. ) in his conspiracy, and with his accomplices was swallowed up by an earthquake (Num. 16:1; 26:9; Deut. 11:6; Ps. 106:17).

Dathan first appears in Numbers 16:1. In this repository’s biblical text, this figure is associated with 8 verse mentions across 3 books, most notably Numbers, Deuteronomy, Psalms.