Leviticus 10:2
And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.
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In The King James Version
And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 10:5So they came and took them, in their coats, outside the tent-circle, as Moses had said.
Numbers 3:3These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests.
Numbers 14:37Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.
Numbers 16:35Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.
Numbers 26:61Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.
2 Samuel 6:7And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 10:2-3
Death of Nadab and Abihu. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord , which he commanded them not. 2 And there went out fire from the Lord , and devoured them, and they died before the Lord . Here is, I. The great sin that Nadab and Abihu were guilty of: and a great sin we must call it, how little soever it appears in our eye, because it is evident by the punishment of it that it… Read the whole commentary →