Leviticus 10:2

And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1But 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.

3And Mosheh said unto Aharon, This is that which the Lord spake, saying, In them who approacheth Me I will be sanctified, and in the face of all the people will I be glorified. And Aharon was silent.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:5And they came nigh, and carried them in their vestments out of the camp, as Mosheh had spoken.

Numbers 3:3These are the names of the sons of Aharon, the priests, who were consecrated that their oblations might be offered, (and that they might) minister.

Numbers 14:37Those men who brought out the evil name upon the land died by the plague before the Lord.

Numbers 16:35And fire came out from before the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who had offered the sweet incense.

Numbers 26:61But Nadab and Abihu died in their offering strange fire before the Lord.

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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