Leviticus 10:2

So suddenly a fire from Yahweh appeared and burned them up [DOU] in the presence of Yahweh.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Two of Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, took the pans in which they burned incense. They put some burning coals in them and put incense on top of the coals, but this fire was not acceptable to Yahweh because it was not the kind that he had commanded them to burn.

3Then Moses/I said to Aaron, “That is what Yahweh predicted. He said, ‘Those priests who come near to me, I will show them that they must ◄respect me/treat me as being holy►; in the presence of all the people I am the one who must be honored.’” But Aaron said nothing.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:5So they carried the corpses, which still had their special gowns on, outside the camp, and buried them.

Numbers 3:3They were appointed [MTY] (OR, Moses/I appointed them) to be priests.

Numbers 14:37were immediately struck with a plague/disease that Yahweh sent, and they died.

Numbers 16:35And then a fire from Yahweh came down from the sky and burned up the 250 men who were burning the incense!

Numbers 26:61But Nadab and Abihu died when they burned incense for a sacrifice to Yahweh in a way that disobeyed what Yahweh had commanded.

2 Samuel 6:7Yahweh immediately became very angry with Uzzah, and he killed him right there alongside the sacred chest, because he had touched the chest, and Yahweh had commanded that only the descendants of Levi who help the priests should touch the sacred chest.

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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