Numbers 16:38

God's Word

The incense burners of these men who sinned and lost their lives are holy, because they were offered to the Lord. Hammer them into thin metal sheets to cover the altar. This will be a sign to the Israelites.”

Cross References

1 Kings 2:23

King Solomon took an oath by the Lord and said, “May God strike me dead if Adonijah doesn’t pay with his life for this request!

Proverbs 1:18

But these people set an ambush for their own murder. They go into hiding only to lose their lives.

Proverbs 20:2

The rage of a king is like the roar of a lion. Whoever makes him angry forfeits his life.

Proverbs 8:36

Whoever sins against me harms himself. All those who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 44:7

Now, this is what the Lord God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Why do you bring this terrible disaster on yourselves? Why do you keep destroying men, women, children, and babies from Judah until none are left?

Ezekiel 14:8

I will reject him, and I will make an example of him. I will exclude him from my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Habakkuk 2:10

You have planned disgrace for your household by cutting off many people and forfeiting your own life.

Numbers 16:37

“Tell Eleazar, son of the priest Aaron, to take the incense burners out of the fire and scatter the coals and incense somewhere else, because the incense burners have become holy.

Numbers 16:39

So the priest Eleazar took the bronze incense burners which had been brought by those who had been burned to death. The incense burners were then hammered into thin metal sheets to cover the altar,

Numbers 16:40

following the command that the Lord had given through Moses. The bronze-covered altar will remind Israel that no one but a descendant of Aaron can come near to burn incense to the Lord. Everyone else will die like Korah and his followers.

Numbers 17:10

The Lord said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the words of my promise, and keep it there as a sign to warn any other rebels. Then you will stop their complaints about me, and they won’t die.”

Numbers 26:10

The ground opened up and swallowed them along with Korah. They and their followers died when the fire consumed the 250 men. This was a warning.

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to make them an example for others. These things were written down as a warning for us who are living in the closing days of history.

2 Peter 2:6

God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them by burning them to ashes. He made those cities an example to ungodly people of what is going to happen to them.