Thematic Bible: Offers "strange" (unauthorized) fire to God, and is destroyed


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 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.


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