Leviticus 10:2

and fire goeth out from before Jehovah, and consumeth them, and they die before Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

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 the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, take each his censer, and put in them fire, and put on it perfume, and bring near before Jehovah strange fire, which He hath not commanded them;

3And Moses saith unto Aaron, 'It [is] that which Jehovah hath spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honoured;' and Aaron is silent.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:5and they come near, and bear them in their coats unto the outside of the camp, as Moses hath spoken.

Numbers 3:3these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest.

Numbers 14:37even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;

Numbers 16:35and fire hath come out from Jehovah, and consumeth the two hundred and fifty men bringing near the perfume.

Numbers 26:61and Nadab dieth — Abihu also — in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.

2 Samuel 6:7and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Uzzah, and God smiteth him there for the error, and he dieth there by 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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