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 26:61Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.
• 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.
• Num 16:35Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
• Num 3:3–4These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.
• 2 Sam 6:7Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.
• Acts 5:10She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
• 2 Kgs 1:12Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
• Num 16:32–33The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
• Num 16:49Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.
• 2 Kgs 1:10Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
• 1 Sam 6:19He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
• 1 Cor 10:11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
• 1 Chr 13:10Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.
• Acts 5:5Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
• Isa 30:33For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
• Lev 16:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before Yahweh, and died;
• Lev 10:5So they came near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.
• 1 Chr 15:13For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
• 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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