Numbers 16:38

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As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the LORD and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

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  • Num 26:10 : 10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.
  • Prov 20:2 : 2 The king’s terrifying anger is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him sins against himself.
  • Ezek 14:8 : 8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,
  • Num 17:10 : 10 The Memorial The LORD said to Moses,“Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”
  • Hab 2:10 : 10 Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.
  • 1 Kgs 2:23 : 23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the LORD,“May God judge me severely, if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!
  • Prov 1:18 : 18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
  • Prov 8:36 : 36 But the one who misses me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."
  • 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
  • Num 16:40 : 40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his company– just as the LORD had spoken by the authority of Moses.

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  • Num 16:39-40
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    39So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.

    40It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his company– just as the LORD had spoken by the authority of Moses.

  • Num 16:36-37
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    36The Atonement for the Rebellion(17:1) The LORD spoke to Moses:

    37“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire at a distance.

  • Lev 16:12-13
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    12and take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD and a full double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring them inside the curtain.

    13He must then put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement lid which is above the ark of the testimony, so that he will not die.

  • Num 16:17-18
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    17And each of you take his censer, put incense in it, and then each of you present his censer before the LORD: 250 censers, along with you, and Aaron– each of you with his censer.”

    18So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

  • Exod 38:2-4
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    2He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

    3He made all the utensils of the altar– the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans– he made all its utensils of bronze.

    4He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

  • 30With it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils of the altar,

  • 46Then Moses said to Aaron,“Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD– the plague has begun!”

  • Exod 27:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

    2You are to make its four horns on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, and you are to overlay it with bronze.

    3You are to make its pots for the ashes, its shovels, its tossing bowls, its meat hooks, and its fire pans– you are to make all its utensils of bronze.

    4You are to make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners.

  • Num 4:13-14
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    13Also, they must take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.

    14Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there– the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar– and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles.

  • 16the altar for the burnt offering with its bronze grating that is on it, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin and its pedestal;

  • 39the bronze altar and its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils; the large basin with its pedestal;

  • 28Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar on top of the burnt offering– they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the LORD.

  • 25Then you are to take them from their hands and burn them on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the LORD. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

  • 25“Then he is to offer up the fat of the sin offering in smoke on the altar,

  • 38Its trimmers and its trays are to be of pure gold.

  • Num 16:6-7
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    6Do this, Korah, you and all your company: Take censers,

    7put fire in them, and set incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses will be holy. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!”

  • 49But Aaron and his descendants offered sacrifices on the altar for burnt offerings and on the altar for incense as they had been assigned to do in the most holy sanctuary. They made atonement for Israel, just as God’s servant Moses had ordered.

  • 38It will be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the Israelites are to sanctify by all their holy gifts; it will always be on his forehead, for their acceptance before the LORD.

  • 9Of all the most holy offerings reserved from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.

  • 1Nadab and Abihu Then Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do.

  • 24You will present them before the LORD, and the priests will scatter salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

  • 38one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • 10Then the priest must put on his linen robe and must put linen leggings over his bare flesh, and he must take up the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire consumed on the altar, and he must place them beside the altar.

  • 36“You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved:“Holiness to the LORD.”

  • 16“‘Then the priest must present all these before the LORD and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering.

  • Exod 38:6-7
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    6He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

    7He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar hollow, out of boards.

  • 20they set those on the breasts and he offered the fat parts up in smoke on the altar.

  • 13You are to take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe that is above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

  • 18and for the refined gold of the incense altar.He gave him the blueprint for the seat of the gold cherubim that spread their wings and provide shelter for the ark of the LORD’s covenant.

  • 26He overlaid it with pure gold– its top, its four walls, and its horns– and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

  • 30They made a plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription, as on the engravings of a seal,“Holiness to the LORD.”

  • 10The fat and the kidneys and the protruding lobe of the liver from the sin offering he offered up in smoke on the altar just as the LORD had commanded Moses,

  • 37For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

  • 16You are to receive the atonement money from the Israelites and give it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD, to make atonement for your lives.”

  • 28and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

  • 18“Then he is to go out to the altar which is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it all around on the horns of the altar.

  • 5Then the sons of Aaron must offer it up in smoke on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the wood in the fire as a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.

  • 18and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a soothing aroma; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

  • 16Then the priest must offer its memorial portion up in smoke– some of its crushed bits, some of its olive oil, in addition to all of its frankincense– it is a gift to the LORD.