Numbers 16:38

New English Translation

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

Cross References

1 Kings 2:23

King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!

Proverbs 1:18

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

Proverbs 20:2

The king’s terrifying anger is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him sins against himself.

Proverbs 8:36

But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 44:7

“So now the Lord, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, asks, ‘Why will you do such great harm to yourselves? Why should every man, woman, child, and baby of yours be destroyed from the midst of Judah? Why should you leave yourselves without a remnant?

Ezekiel 14:8

I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Habakkuk 2:10

Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.

Numbers 16:37

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire at a distance.

Numbers 16:39

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.

Numbers 16:40

It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the Lord had spoken by the authority of Moses.

Numbers 17:10

The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”

Numbers 26:10

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

2 Peter 2:6

and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,