Leviticus 10:2

Fire from Yahweh devours Nadab and Abihu, and they die before him. God's holiness is deadly serious and judges presumptuous worship.

Cross-references · 19

• Num 26:61And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
• Lev 9:24And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
• Num 16:35And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
• Num 3:3–4These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
• 2 Sam 6:7And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
• Acts 5:10Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
• 2 Kgs 1:12And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
• Num 16:32–33And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
• Num 16:49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
• 2 Kgs 1:10And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
• 1 Sam 6:19And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
• 1 Cor 10:11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
• 1 Chr 13:10And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
• Acts 5:5And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
• Isa 30:33For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
• Lev 16:1And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
• Lev 10:5So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
• 1 Chr 15:13For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
• 1 Chr 24:2But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.

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