Leviticus 10:1
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The Profane Fire of Nadab and Abihu
10 Then (A)Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, (B)each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered (C)profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.
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Numbers 26:61
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61 And (A)Nadab and Abihu died when they offered profane fire before the Lord.
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Leviticus 16:12
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12 Then he shall take (A)a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, with his hands full of (B)sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil.
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Deuteronomy 12:32
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32 “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; (A)you shall not add to it nor take away from it.
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Numbers 16:46
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46 So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make [a]atonement for them; (A)for wrath has gone out from the Lord. The plague has begun.”
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- Numbers 16:46 Lit. covering
Exodus 24:1
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Israel Affirms the Covenant
24 Now He said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, (A)Nadab and Abihu, (B)and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.
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Exodus 6:23
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23 Aaron took to himself Elisheba, daughter of (A)Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as wife; and she bore him (B)Nadab, Abihu, (C)Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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Psalm 141:2
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2 Let my prayer be set before You (A)as incense,
(B)The lifting up of my hands as (C)the evening sacrifice.
Leviticus 22:9
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9 ‘They shall therefore keep (A)My [a]ordinance, (B)lest they bear sin for it and die thereby, if they profane it: I the Lord sanctify them.
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- Leviticus 22:9 charge
Exodus 24:9
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On the Mountain with God
9 Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
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2 Chronicles 26:16-20
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The Penalty for Uzziah’s Pride(A)
16 But (B)when he was strong his heart was (C)lifted up, to his destruction, for he transgressed against the Lord his God (D)by entering the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17 So (E)Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him were eighty priests of the Lord—valiant men. 18 And they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, “It (F)is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the (G)priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed! You shall have no honor from the Lord God.”
19 Then Uzziah became furious; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was angry with the priests, (H)leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the incense altar. 20 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and there, on his forehead, he was leprous; so they thrust him out of that place. Indeed he also (I)hurried to get out, because the Lord had struck him.
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Leviticus 16:1
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The Day of Atonement
16 Now the Lord spoke to Moses after (A)the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered profane fire before the Lord, and died;
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Leviticus 9:24
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24 and (A)fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they (B)shouted and fell on their (C)faces.
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Revelation 8:3-5
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3 Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with (A)the prayers of all the saints upon (B)the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And (C)the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand. 5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And (D)there were noises, thunderings, (E)lightnings, (F)and an earthquake.
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Exodus 27:3
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3 Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.
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Luke 1:9-11
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9 according to the custom of the priesthood, [a]his lot fell (A)to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 10 (B)And the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense. 11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of (C)the altar of incense.
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- Luke 1:9 he was chosen by lot
Jeremiah 44:19-21
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19 The women also said, (A)“And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands’ permission?”
20 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people—the men, the women, and all the people who had given him that answer—saying: 21 “The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them, and did it not come into His mind?
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Jeremiah 44:15
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15 Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, with all the women who stood by, a great multitude, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying:
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Jeremiah 44:8
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8 in that you (A)provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be (B)a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
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Jeremiah 32:35
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35 And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to (A)cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to (B)Molech, (C)which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’
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Jeremiah 19:5
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5 (A)(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, (B)which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind),
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Jeremiah 7:31
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31 And they have built the (A)high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to (B)burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, (C)which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.
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1 Kings 13:1-2
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The Message of the Man of God
13 And behold, (A)a man of God went from Judah to Bethel [a]by the word of the Lord, (B)and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. 2 Then he cried out against the altar [b]by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altar, altar! Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a child, (C)Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be (D)burned on you.’ ”
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- 1 Kings 13:1 at the Lord’s command
- 1 Kings 13:2 at the Lord’s command
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