Leviticus 10:1
Then Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, took each man his censer and placed therein fire, and put thereon incense,—and brought near before Yahweh strange fire, which he had not commanded them.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2Then came there forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed them,—and they died before Yahweh.
Cross References
Exodus 6:23And Aaron took Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, to himself to wife,—and she bare to him—Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Exodus 24:1And unto Moses, he said—Come up unto Yahweh—thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, so shall ye bow yourselves down from afar.
Exodus 27:3And thou shalt make its pans for removing its ashes, and its shovels and its sprinkling bowls, and its flesh-hooks and its fire-pans,—all its vessels, shalt thou make of bronze.
Exodus 30:1And thou shalt make an altar, for burning incense, of acacia wood, shalt thou make it:
Exodus 30:34Then said Yahweh unto Moses—Take to thee aromatic spices stacte and onycha, and galbanum,—aromatic spices, and pure frankincense,—weight for weight, shall it be.
Exodus 37:29And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure fragrant incense,—the work of a 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 →