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Numbers 16:35 KJV
Numbers · chapter 16 · verse 35
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.Numbers 16:35 · King James Version
Numbers 16:35 in context
33They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
34And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
35And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
36And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
37Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- consumedʼâkalto eatH398 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- offeredqârabto approach for whatever purposeH7126 →
- fiftychămishshîymfiftyH2572 →
- fireʼêshfireH784 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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We must now look back to the door of the tabernacle, where we left the pretenders to the priesthood with their censers in their hands ready to offer incense; and here we find, I. Vengeance taken on them, Num 16:35.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 35-40