2But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
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And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-19)The particular account of these establishments is of little use to us now; but, when Ezra published it, it was of great use to direct their church affairs after their return from captivity into the old channel again. The title of this record we have 1 Chron. 24:1— These are the divisions of the sons of Aaron , not by which they divided one from another, or were at variance one with another (it is…
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