Then Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the host of heaven standing beside him to the right and to the left of him.
Exodus 24:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up [the mountainside]. American Standard Version (1901) Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: Common English Bible Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy elders of Israel went up, Catholic Public Domain Version And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel ascended. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up. |
Then Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the host of heaven standing beside him to the right and to the left of him.
The Lord said to him, “Go down, then come back up and bring Aaron with you, but do not let either the priests or the people break through to come up to the Lord; otherwise he will break out against them.”
Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship at a distance.
“Then bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him, from among the Israelites, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron’s sons: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one shall see me and live.”
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
Only the prince, because he is a prince, may sit in it to eat food before the Lord; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate and shall go out by the same way.”
Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer, put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and they offered unholy fire before the Lord, such as he had not commanded them.
So the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting and have them take their place there with you.
And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.”