Abihu in the Bible

Meaning: he is my father

Exact Match

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense thereon, and offered unholy fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.

Verse ConceptsFireWorship, Acceptable AttitudesAaron, CharacterDisobedience, Examples OfSacrilegeCensersForeign ThingsBurning SacrificesIncense Offered Amiss

Thematic Bible



And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do. And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.


And Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon; and she gave birth to Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.


Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:


And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Fausets

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain