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Numbers 16:35

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Then a fire came from the Lord and destroyed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

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That was the time when the earth opened and swallowed Korah and all of his followers. And 250 men died! That was a warning to all the Israelites.

So fire came from the Lord and destroyed Nadab and Abihu, and they died there in front of the Lord.

Then a fire burned that mob of people. It burned those wicked people.

Each of you must bring a pan, put incense in it, and present it to the Lord. There will be 250 pans for the leaders and one pan for you and one pan for Aaron.”

These four men gathered 250 other men from Israel together and came against Moses. They were leaders who had been chosen by the people. All the people knew them.

If anyone tries to hurt the witnesses, fire comes from the mouths of the witnesses and kills their enemies. Anyone who tries to hurt them will die like this.

The Israelites heard the cries of the men being destroyed. So they all ran in different directions and said, “The earth will swallow us too!”

But 14,700 people died from that sickness—and that is not counting the people who died because of Korah.

Our God is coming and will not keep quiet. Fire burns in front of him. There is a great storm around him.

Then I noticed that Jaazaniah son of Shaphan and the 70 elders of Israel were there with the people worshiping in that place. There they were, right at the front of the people, and each leader had his own incense dish in his hand. The smoke from the burning incense was rising into the air.

But Nadab and Abihu died while serving the Lord. They used fire that the Lord did not allow when they made an offering to him. So Nadab and Abihu died there, in the desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar took their place and served the Lord as priests. This happened while their father Aaron was still alive.

The men were responsible for spreading the trouble among the Israelites. So the Lord caused a sickness to kill all those men.




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