Leviticus 10:1
But the sons of Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, took each man his censer and put fire in them, and put sweet incense upon it, and offered (or brought) before the Lord strange fire which He had not commanded them.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
2And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 6:23And Aharon took Elisheba the daughter of Aminadab the sister of Nachshon to him to wife; and she bare him Nadab and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar.
Exodus 24:1And He said to Mosheh, Come up before the Lord, thou and Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and they shall worship at a distance.
Exodus 27:3And make its pots, to collect the ashes, and its fireshovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its thuribles, all its vessels make thou of brass.
Exodus 30:1And thou shalt make an altar upon which to burn fragrant incense, of woods of sittin shalt thou make it.
Exodus 30:34And the Lord said to Mosheh, Take thee spices, stachte and onycha, and galbanum spices, and pure frankincense, weight for weight shall they be;
Exodus 37:29And he made the oil for holy anointment, and the pure sweet incense, the work of the perfumer.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 10:1
The story of this chapter is as sad an interruption to the institutions of the levitical law as that of the golden calf was to the account of the erecting of the tabernacle. Here is, I. The sin and death of Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, ver. 1, 2 . II. The quieting of Aaron under this sore affliction, ver. 3 . III. Orders given and observed about the funeral and mourning, ver. 4-7 . IV. A command to the priests not to drink wine when they went in to minister, ver. 8-11 . V. The care Moses took that they… Read the whole commentary →