Numbers 16:38

Contemporary English Version 1995

because they were used for offering incense to me. Have them hammered into a thin layer of bronze as a covering for the altar. Those men died because of their sin, and now their fire pans will become a warning for the rest of the community.”

Cross References

2 Peter 2:6

God punished the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and this is a warning to anyone else who wants to sin.

Ezekiel 14:8

by turning against you. I will make you a warning to anyone who might think of doing the same thing, and you will no longer belong to my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord and that you have sinned against me.

Proverbs 20:2

An angry ruler is like a roaring lion— make either one angry, and you are dead.

Numbers 26:10

That's when the Lord made the earth open up and swallow Dathan, Abiram, and Korah. At the same time, fire destroyed 250 men as a warning to the other Israelites.

Habakkuk 2:10

But you will bring shame on your family and ruin to yourself for what you did to others.

1 Kings 2:23

I swear in the name of the Lord that Adonijah will die because he asked for this! If he doesn't, I pray that God will severely punish me.

Numbers 17:10

But the Lord told Moses, “Put Aaron's stick back! Let it stay near the sacred chest as a warning to anyone who might think of rebelling. If these people don't stop their grumbling about me, I will wipe them out.”

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them as a warning to us. All this was written in the Scriptures to teach us who live in these last days.

Proverbs 8:36

But if you don't find me, you hurt only yourself, and if you hate me, you are in love with death.

Proverbs 1:18

They gang up to murder someone, but they are the victims.

Numbers 16:40

just as the Lord had told Moses. The pans were a warning to the Israelites that only Aaron's descendants would be allowed to offer incense to the Lord. Anyone else who tried to would be punished like Korah and his followers.

Numbers 16:37

“Tell Aaron's son Eleazar to take the fire pans from the smoldering fire and scatter the coals. The pans are now sacred,

Numbers 16:39

Eleazar collected the pans and had them hammered into a thin layer of bronze as a covering for the altar,

Jeremiah 44:7

Why do you now insist on heading for another disaster? A disaster that will destroy not only you, but also your children and babies.