Leviticus 10:2

Fire came out from before Adonai, and devoured them, and they died before Adonai.

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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

1Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron [Light-bringer], each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange, foreign, adulterated fire before Adonai, which he had not enjoined them.

3Then Moses [Drawn out] said to Aaron [Light-bringer], “This is what Adonai spoke of, saying, 1 ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, 2 and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron [Light-bringer] held his peace.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:5So they came near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses [Drawn out] had said.

Numbers 3:3These are the names of the sons of Aaron [Light-bringer], the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.

Numbers 14:37even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Adonai.

Numbers 16:35Fire came out from Adonai, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

Numbers 26:61Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Adonai.

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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