Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
Eleazar and the priests would be chargeable with the death of the kohathites, if they failed to give them proper cautions and directions; or permitted them to gaze with irreverence or curiosity upon the holy things, which they might carry, but not see
Bible References
Eleazar and the priests would be chargeable with the death of the kohathites, if they failed to give them proper cautions and directions; or permitted them to gaze with irreverence or curiosity upon the holy things, which they might carry, but not see
Numbers 16:32
And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property.
Exodus 19:21
And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down, testify to the people that they break not through to Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish.
Leviticus 10:1
And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and presented strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.
1 Samuel 6:19
And he smote among the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, and smote of the people seventy men; and the people lamented, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
2 Samuel 6:6
And when they came to Nachon's threshing-floor, Uzzah reached after the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen had stumbled.
Jeremiah 38:23
And they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand; for thou shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon, and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.