Numbers 16:38

Good News Translation

They became holy when they were presented at the Lord's altar. So take the fire pans of these who were put to death for their sin, beat them into thin plates, and make a covering for the altar. It will be a warning to the people of Israel.”

Cross References

1 Kings 2:23

Then Solomon made a solemn promise in the Lord's name, “May God strike me dead if I don't make Adonijah pay with his life for asking this!

Proverbs 1:18

but people like that are setting a trap for themselves, a trap in which they will die.

Proverbs 20:2

Fear an angry king as you would a growling lion; making him angry is suicide.

Proverbs 8:36

Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death.”

Jeremiah 44:7

“And so I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, now ask why you are doing such an evil thing to yourselves. Do you want to bring destruction on men and women, children and babies, so that none of your people will be left?

Ezekiel 14:8

I will oppose you. I will make an example of you. I will remove you from the community of my people, so that all of you will know that I am the Lord.

Habakkuk 2:10

But your schemes have brought shame on your family; by destroying many nations you have only brought ruin on yourself.

Numbers 16:37

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the bronze fire pans from the remains of those who have been burned, and scatter the coals from the fire pans somewhere else, because the fire pans are holy.

Numbers 16:39

So Eleazar the priest took the fire pans and had them beaten into thin plates to make a covering for the altar.

Numbers 16:40

This was a warning to the Israelites that no one who was not a descendant of Aaron should come to the altar to burn incense for the Lord. Otherwise he would be destroyed like Korah and his men. All this was done as the Lord had commanded Eleazar through Moses.

Numbers 17:10

The Lord said to Moses, “Put Aaron's stick back in front of the Covenant Box. It is to be kept as a warning to the rebel Israelites that they will die unless their complaining stops.”

Numbers 26:10

The ground opened and swallowed them, and they died with Korah and his followers when fire destroyed 250 men; they became a warning to the people.

1 Corinthians 10:11

All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.

2 Peter 2:6

God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying them with fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless.