Numbers 16:35

New International Reader's Version

Then the Lord sent down fire. It burned up the 250 men offering the incense.

Cross References

Psalm 106:18

Fire blazed among all of them. Flames destroyed those evil people.

Psalm 50:3

Our God comes, and he won’t be silent. A burning fire goes ahead of him. A terrible storm is all around him.

Ezekiel 8:11

In front of them stood 70 elders of Israel. Jaazaniah was standing there among them. He is the son of Shaphan. Each elder was holding a shallow cup. A sweet-smelling cloud of incense was rising from the cups.

Leviticus 10:2

So the Lord sent fire on them. It burned them up. They died in front of the Lord.

Numbers 14:37

Those men were to blame for spreading the bad report. So the Lord struck them down. They died of a plague.

Numbers 16:17

Each man must get his shallow cup. He must put incense in it. There will be a total of 250 incense cups. Each man must bring his cup to the Lord. You and Aaron must also bring your cups.”

Numbers 16:2

All those men rose up against Moses. And 250 men of Israel joined them. All of them were known as leaders in the community. They had been appointed as members of the ruling body.

Numbers 16:34

All the Israelites around them heard their cries. They ran away from them. They shouted, “The ground is going to swallow us up too!”

Numbers 16:36

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 16:49

But 14,700 people died from the plague. That doesn’t include those who had died because of what Korah did.

Numbers 26:10

The ground opened its mouth. It swallowed them up along with Korah. The followers of Korah died when fire burned up 250 men. Their deaths were a warning to the rest of Israel.

Numbers 3:4

But Nadab and Abihu made an offering to the Lord by using fire that wasn’t allowed. So they died in front of him. That happened in the Desert of Sinai. They didn’t have any sons. Only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests while their father Aaron was living.

Revelation 11:5

If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and eats up their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.