20When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died; …
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-21)Orders are here given, 1. For the making of a laver, or font, of brass, a large vessel, that would contain a good quantity of water, which was to be set near the door of the tabernacle, Exod. 30:18. The foot of brass, it is supposed, was so contrived as to receive the water, which was let into it out of the laver by spouts or cocks. They then had a laver for the priests only to wash in, but to us…
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