Numbers 26:61

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Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 10:1-2 : 1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do. 2 And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.
  • Num 3:4 : 4 And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.
  • 1 Chr 24:1-2 : 1 Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2 But Nadab and Abihu came to their end before their father, and had no children; so Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests.

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  • Num 3:2-5
    4 verses
    89%

    2These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

    3These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests.

    4And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.

    5And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 10:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    1And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do.

    2And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

    3Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.

  • 1 Chr 24:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

    2But Nadab and Abihu came to their end before their father, and had no children; so Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests.

  • Num 26:60
    81%

    60Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

  • Lev 16:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1And the Lord said to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they took in strange fire before the Lord and death overtook them;

    2The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark.

  • Num 16:35-37
    3 verses
    73%

    35Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

    36And the Lord said to Moses,

    37Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he is to take out of the flames the vessels with the perfumes in them, turning the fire out of them, for they are holy;

  • Num 26:62
    73%

    62Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

  • Num 26:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord:

    10And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.

    11But death did not overtake the sons of Korah.

  • Num 16:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses.

    41But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

  • Exod 24:9
    71%

    9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:

  • Exod 24:1
    71%

    1And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

  • Exod 30:20
    70%

    20Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,

  • Num 3:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.

    11And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 1 Chr 6:49
    70%

    49But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burned offering, and on the altar of perfume, for all the work of the most holy place, and to take away the sin of Israel, doing everything ordered by Moses, the servant of God.

  • Exod 28:1
    69%

    1Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.

  • Num 16:20
    69%

    20And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • 1 Chr 6:3
    69%

    3And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

  • Lev 3:5
    69%

    5That it may be burned by Aaron's sons on the altar, on the burned offering which is on the wood on the fire: it is an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord.

  • Num 16:49
    69%

    49Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.

  • Lev 16:13
    69%

    13And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him.

  • Deut 10:6
    69%

    6(And the children of Israel went on from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah: there death came to Aaron and he was put to rest in the earth; and Eleazar, his son, took his place as priest.

  • Num 3:38
    69%

    38And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

  • Num 18:7
    69%

    7And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

  • Lev 21:1
    69%

    1And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people;

  • Exod 30:9
    69%

    9No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.

  • Num 16:18
    69%

    18So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them, with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

  • Lev 10:16
    69%

    16And Moses was looking for the goat of the sin-offering, but it was burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, who were still living, saying,

  • Num 27:3
    68%

    3Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.

  • Num 16:46
    68%

    46And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.

  • Num 1:51
    68%

    51And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

  • Lev 17:8
    68%

    8And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

  • Num 4:19
    68%

    19But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;

  • Num 17:13
    67%

    13Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes near the House of the Lord: are we all to come to destruction?

  • Num 21:6
    67%

    6Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.