Numbers 16:38
of these sinners against their own souls, and do you make them beaten plates a covering to the altar, because they were brought before the Lord and hallowed; and they became a sign to the children of Israel.
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Numbers 16:40a memorial to the children of Israel that no stranger might draw near, who is not of the seed of Aaron, to offer incense before the Lord; so he shall not be as Core and as they that conspired with him, as the Lord spoke to him by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 26:10And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them and Core, when their assembly perished, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty, and they were + 26:10 Or. for a sign. made a sign.
Proverbs 1:18For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
Proverbs 20:2The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul.
Habakkuk 2:10You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 16:36-41
35 And there came out a fire from the Lord , and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. 36 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed. 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord , therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign… Read the whole commentary →