Numbers 16:38

New American Standard Bible 2020

As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their own lives, have them made into hammered sheets as plating for the altar, since they did present them before the Lord and they are holy; and they shall serve as a sign to the sons of Israel.”

Cross References

1 Kings 2:23

Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “May God do so to me and more so, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life!

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion; One who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

Proverbs 8:36

“But one who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 44:7

Now then, this is what the Lord God of armies, the God of Israel says: “Why are you doing great harm to yourselves, to eliminate from yourselves man and woman, child and infant from among Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant,

Ezekiel 14:8

I will set My face against that person and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will eliminate him from among My people. So you will know that I am the Lord.

Habakkuk 2:10

“You have planned a shameful thing for your house By bringing many peoples to an end; So you are sinning against yourself.

Numbers 16:37

“Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he shall pick up the censers from the midst of the burned area, because they are holy; and you are to scatter the burning coals farther away.

Numbers 16:39

So the priest Eleazar took the bronze censers which the men who were burned had offered, and they hammered them out as plating for the altar,

Numbers 16:40

as a reminder to the sons of Israel so that no layman, anyone who was not of the descendants of Aaron, would approach to burn incense before the Lord; then he would not become like Korah and his group—just as the Lord had spoken to him through Moses.

Numbers 17:10

But the Lord said to Moses, “Put the staff of Aaron back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign against the rebels, so that you may put an end to their grumblings against Me and they do not die.”

Numbers 26:10

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with Korah, when that group died, when the fire devoured 250 men, so that they became a warning sign.

1 Corinthians 10:11

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

2 Peter 2:6

and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example of what is coming for the ungodly;