Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!
Numbers 16:38 - English Standard Version 2016 As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The censers of these men who have sinned against themselves and at the cost of their own lives. Let the censers be made into hammered plates for a covering of the altar [of burnt offering], for they were used in offering before the Lord and therefore they are sacred. They shall be a sign [of warning] to the Israelites. American Standard Version (1901) even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. Common English Bible Hammer the censers of those who sinned and lost their lives into thin plates for the altar. Since they presented them in the LORD’s presence, they had become holy. They will be a sign for the Israelites. Catholic Public Domain Version in the deaths of these sinners. And let him form them into plates, and affix them to the altar, because incense had been offered in them to the Lord, and they were sanctified, and so that the sons of Israel may discern in them a sign and a memorial." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In the deaths of the sinners. And let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified: that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial. |
Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!
but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.
The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.
but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”
And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?
And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.
“Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy.
So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,
to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the Lord said to him through Moses.
And the Lord said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.”
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a warning.
Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;