Leviticus 10:1-20 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 10:1-2

Here is, I. The great sin that Nadab and Abihu were guilty of: and a great sin we must call it, how little soever it appears in our eye, because it is evident by the punishment of it that it was highly provoking to the God of heaven, whose judgment, we are sure, is according to truth. But what was their sin? All the account here given of it is that they offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not (Lev. 10:1), and the same Num. 3:4. 1. It does not appear the they had any... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 10:3-7

We may well think that when Nadab and Abihu were struck with death all about them were struck with horror, and every face, as well as theirs, gathered blackness. Great consternation, no doubt, seized them, and they were all full of confusion; but, whatever the rest were, Moses was composed, and knew what he said and did, not being displeased, as David was in a like case, 2 Sam. 6:8. But though it touched him in a very tender part, and was a dreadful damp to one of the greatest joys he ever... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 10:10-11

Aaron having been very observant of what God said to him by Moses, now God does him the honour to speak to him immediately (Lev. 10:8): The Lord spoke unto Aaron, and the rather because what was now to be said Aaron might perhaps have taken amiss from Moses, as if he had suspected him to have been a gluttonous man and a wine-bibber, so apt are we to resent cautions as accusations; therefore God saith it himself to him, Do not drink wine, nor strong drink, when you go into the tabernacle, and... read more

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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 10:12-20

Moses is here directing Aaron to go on with his service after this interruption. Afflictions should rather quicken us to our duty than take us off from it. Observe (Lev. 10:12), He spoke unto Aaron and to his sons that were left. The notice taken of their survivorship intimates, 1. That Aaron should take comfort under the loss of two of his sons, from this consideration, that God had graciously spared him the other two, and that he had reason to be thankful for the remnant that was left, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:1

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron ,.... His two eldest sons, as seems from Exodus 6:23 , took either of them his censer ; a vessel in which coals of fire were put, and incense upon them, and burnt it, and so it follows: and put fire therein, and put incense thereon ; which, as Aben Ezra says, was on the eighth day, that is, of their consecration, the day after their consecration was completely finished, and the same day that Aaron had offered the offerings for himself and for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:2

And there went out fire from the Lord ,.... They sinned by fire, and they were punished by fire, either from heaven, or from the most holy place, where the Lord dwelt between the cherubim; this was of the nature of lightning, as appears by what follows: and devoured them ; not reduced them to ashes, for neither their bodies nor their clothes were burnt with this fire, as is clear from Leviticus 10:4 but their lives were destroyed, they were lifeless, their souls were separated from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:3

And Moses said unto Aaron ,.... Upon this awful occasion, and in order to quiet and humble him under the mighty hand of God: this is it that the Lord spoke, saying ; but when he spoke it, and where it is said and recorded, is not so very clear; it might have been said, and yet not recorded, or the substance of it may be recorded, though not in the express words here delivered; it may refer, as some think, to Exodus 19:22 or else to Exodus 29:43 which seems to come nearest to what... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:4

And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron ,.... Uzziel was a son of Kohath, a brother of Amram, the father of Aaron, and so Aaron's uncle, as here; he had four sons, two of which are here mentioned as called by Moses; these were first cousins to Aaron, and second to his sons; see Exodus 6:18 , and said unto them, come near ; it is very probable they were in the court of the tabernacle, being Kohathites, of the tribe of Levi; but not being priests,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:5

So they went near ,.... To the place where the bodies lay, having an order from Moses so to do, let them have been where they will: and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said ; or bid them do; they took them up in their clothes as they found them, and carried them in them; not that these men carried them in their own coats, but in the coats of the dead, as Jarchi expresses it; and had them without the camp, and there buried them, probably in their coats in which... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:6

And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar, his sons ,.... His two younger sons, which yet remained; and so the Septuagint version adds, as in Leviticus 10:12 . uncover not your heads ; that is, do not take off your mitre, as the Septuagint version; or the bonnets which they wore in the time of their ministry; for the Jewish priests always had their mitres and bonnets on when they sacrificed; in imitation of which, the Heathens had their heads covered when they... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 10:1-2

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 10:3-7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 10:10-11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 10:12-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:6

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