Leviticus 10:2

And there went out fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

In Context

1And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and presented strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.

3And Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be hallowed in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron was silent.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:5And they went near, and carried them in their vests out of the camp, as Moses had said.

Numbers 3:3These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, who were consecrated to exercise the priesthood.

Numbers 14:37even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.

Numbers 16:35And there came out a fire from Jehovah, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that had presented incense.

Numbers 26:61And Nadab and Abihu died, when they presented strange fire before Jehovah.

2 Samuel 6:7And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died 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 →

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