Numbers 16:38

As for the firepans of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered sheets as plating for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord, and the firepans are holy. They will be a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 26:10

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.

Proverbs 20:2

A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion;
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.

Ezekiel 14:8

I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

2 Peter 2:6

and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;

Numbers 17:10

The Lord told Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before Me, or else they will die.”

1 Kings 2:23

Then Solomon took an oath by the Lord: “May God punish me and do so severely if Adonijah has not made this request at the cost of his life.

Habakkuk 2:10

You have planned shame for your house
by wiping out many peoples
and sinning against your own self.

Numbers 16:40

just as the Lord commanded him through Moses. It was to be a reminder for the Israelites that no unauthorized person outside the lineage of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the Lord and become like Korah and his followers.

Proverbs 1:18

but they set an ambush to kill themselves;
they attack their own lives.

Proverbs 8:36

but the one who misses me harms himself;
all who hate me love death.”

1 Corinthians 10:11

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

Sinners

1 Kings 2:23
Then Solomon took an oath by the Lord: “May God punish me and do so severely if Adonijah has not made this request at the cost of his life.
Proverbs 1:18
but they set an ambush to kill themselves;
they attack their own lives.
Proverbs 8:36
but the one who misses me harms himself;
all who hate me love death.”
Proverbs 20:2
A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion;
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.
Habakkuk 2:10
You have planned shame for your house
by wiping out many peoples
and sinning against your own self.

General references

Numbers 16:6
Korah, you and all your followers are to do this: take firepans, and tomorrow
Psalm 106:18
Fire blazed throughout their assembly;
flames consumed the wicked.

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