Verse 2

Nadab and Abihu died before their father did; they had no sons. Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 10:2 : 2 So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.
• Num 3:4 : 4 Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the desert of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.
• Num 26:61 : 61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
• Num 16:39-40 : 39 So 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. 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.
• Num 18:7 : 7 But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service, but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”
• Lev 10:12 : 12 Perpetual Statutes Moses spoke to Aaron Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his remaining sons,“Take the grain offering which remains from the gifts of the LORD and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.
• Exod 24:1 : 1 The Lord Ratifies the Covenant But to Moses the LORD said,“Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.
• Exod 24:9 : 9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,
• Exod 29:9 : 9 and wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and put headbands on them, and so the ministry of priesthood will belong to them by a perpetual ordinance. Thus you are to consecrate Aaron and his sons.