Lev 10:1, Num 16:18, 46, Isa 6:6-7, Heb 9:14, 1Jo 1:7 | TSK | STEP | Nadab and Abihu, for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire. Aaron and his sons are forbidden to mourn for them. The priests are forbidden wine when they are to go into the tabernacle. The law of eating the holy things. Aaron's excuse for transgressing thereof. Nadab. censer. put incense. strange. which. Bp. Hall says, "It is a dangerous thing, in the service of God, to decline from his institutions; we have to do with a God, who is wise to prescribe his own worship--just to require what he has prescribed--and powerful to avenge what he has not prescribed."

Leviticus 10:1

1 Nadab and Abihu, for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire.

6 Aaron and his sons are forbidden to mourn for them.

8 The priests are forbidden wine when they are to go into the tabernacle.

12 The law of eating the holy things.

16 Aaron's excuse for transgressing thereof.

Nadab.

16:1; 22:9; Ex 6:23; 24:1,9; 28:1; Nu 3:3,4; 26:61

censer.

16:12; Ex 27:3; 38:3; Nu 16:6,7,16,17,46; Heb 9:4

put incense.

Ex 30:1-9,34-36; 31:11; 37:29; 40:27; 1Ki 13:1,2; 2Ch 26:16-20

Ps 141:2; Jer 44:8,15,19-21; Lu 1:9-11; Re 8:3-5

strange.

9:24; 16:12; Nu 16:18,46

which.

Ex 30:9; De 4:2; 12:32; 17:3; Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35Bp. Hall says, "It is a dangerous thing, in the service of God, to decline from his institutions; we have to do with a God, who is wise to prescribe his own worship--just to require what he has prescribed--and powerful to avenge what he has not prescribed."

Numbers 16:18

Numbers 16:46

from off.

Le 9:24; 10:1; 16:12,13; Isa 6:6,7; Ro 5:9,10; Heb 7:25-27; 9:25,26

Re 8:3-5

and put.

Ps 141:2; Mal 1:11

an atonement.

Ex 30:7-10; Le 16:11-16; 1Jo 2:1,2

there is wrath.

1:53; 8:19; 11:33; 18:5; Le 10:6; 1Ch 27:24; Ps 106:29

the plague is begun.God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not "the people of the Lord," and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them.