Leviticus 10:2

And fire went out from the Lord, and devoured them, and they were dead before the Lord.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1And when Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, had taken censers, and putted fire (therein), and incense [there] above, and offered before the Lord alien fire, which thing was not commanded to them. (But then Nadab and Abihu, Aaron’s sons, took their censers, and put fire in them, and some incense on it, and offered unholy fire before the Lord, which they were not commanded to do.)

3And Moses said to Aaron, This thing it is that the Lord spake (or This is what the Lord meant when he said), I shall be hallowed in them that nigh to me, and I shall be glorified in the sight of all the people; which thing Aaron heard, and was still.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:5And anon they went, and took them, as they lay clothed with linen coats, and casted them out, as it was commanded to them. (And at once they went, and took them, as they lay clothed in their linen shirts, or in their linen robes, and cast them out, as it was commanded to them.)

Numbers 3:3these be the names of Aaron’s sons, (the) priests, that were anointed, and whose hands were [ful] filled and hallowed, that they should be set in priesthood. (these be the names of Aaron’s sons, the priests, who were anointed, and consecrated, so that they could be installed, or ordained, in the priesthood.)

Numbers 14:37that it was evil, were dead, and smitten in the sight of the Lord + 14:37 That is, suddenly and horribly, by the sentence of the Lord, (and) to the dread of (the) other men. (by saying that it was evil, were then struck by the Lord with a pestilence, or a plague, and died.)

Numbers 16:35But also fire went out from the Lord, and killed (the) twain hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Numbers 26:61of which Nadab and Abihu were dead, when they had offered alien fire before the Lord. (and Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered unholy fire before the Lord.)

2 Samuel 6:7And the Lord was wroth by indignation against Uzzah, and smote him on the folly (or and struck him down for his foolishness in touching the Ark); and he was dead there beside the ark 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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