2And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
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And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. …
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)Here is, I. The great sin that Nadab and Abihu were guilty of: and a great sin we must call it, how little soever it appears in our eye, because it is evident by the punishment of it that it was highly provoking to the God of heaven, whose judgment, we are sure, is according to truth. But what was their sin? All the account here given of it is that they offered strange fire before the Lord, which…
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