Leviticus 10:2

Therefore a fire went out from the Lord, and deuoured them: so they dyed before the Lord.

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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

1But Nadab and Abihu, the sonnes of Aaron, tooke either of them his censor, and put fire therein, and put incense thereupon, and offred strange fire before the Lord, which hee had not commanded them.

3Then Moses sayde vnto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will bee sanctified in the that come neere me, and before all the people I will be glorified: but Aaron held his peace.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:5Then they went, and caried them in their coates out of the host, as Moses had comaunded.

Numbers 3:3These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron the anoynted Priests, whom Moses did consecrate to minister in the Priests office.

Numbers 14:37Euen those men that did bring vp that vile slander vpon the land, shall die by a plague before the Lord.

Numbers 16:35But there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundreth and fiftie men that offred the incense.

Numbers 26:61And Nadab and Abihu dyed, because they offred strange fire before the Lord.

2 Samuel 6:7And the Lord was verie wroth with Vzzah, and God smote him in the same place for his fault, and there he dyed by the Arke of God.

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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