Leviticus 10:1

Nadab and Abihu offer 'strange fire' that God had not commanded. Self-directed worship, however sincere, violates God's holiness.

Cross-references · 35

• Num 26:61Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.
• Deut 12:32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
• Lev 16:12He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
• Num 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
• Exod 6:23Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
• Exod 24:1He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
• Ps 141:2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
• Exod 24:9Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
• Exod 28:1“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
• Lev 22:9“‘They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
• 2 Chr 26:16–20But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
• Lev 16:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before Yahweh, and died;
• Lev 9:24Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
• Rev 8:3–5Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
• Exod 27:3You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.
• Jer 32:35They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech; which I didn’t command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”
• Heb 9:4having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
• Exod 30:1–9“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.
• Jer 44:15Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
• Exod 40:27and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
• Deut 4:2You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
• Exod 30:34–36Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: there shall be an equal weight of each;
• Jer 44:8in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
• Exod 37:29He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
• Jer 7:31They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.
• Num 16:16–18Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.
• Num 3:2–4These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
• Jer 19:5and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
• Jer 44:19–21“When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”
• 1 Kgs 13:1–2Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Beth El; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
• Deut 17:3and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded;
• Exod 38:3He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.
• Num 16:6–7Do this: take censers, Korah, and all his company;
• Luke 1:9–11according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
• Exod 31:11the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”

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