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Leviticus 10:9-11

LEVITICUS—NOTE ON Leviticus 10:9 Wine and strong drink are forbidden while priests are “on duty,” so that they can faithfully carry out their responsibilities. On their responsibility to teach, see also Deuteronomy 33:10; Ezra 7:10; Nehemiah 8:1; Malachi 2:6.

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See also Leviticus 10:9-11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 10:9. _DO NOT DRINK WINE NOR STRONG DRINK_] The cabalistical commentator, _Baal Hatturim_, and others, have supposed, from the introduction of this command here, that Aaron's sons had...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    When the priest was on duty he was to abstain from wine and strong drink, lest he should commit excess (see Leviticus 10:1), and so become disqualified for carrying out the precepts of the ceremonial...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. NADAB AND ABIHU: THE FALSE WORSHIP AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The false worship and the judgment (Leviticus 10:1)_ 2. New instructions (Leviticus 10:8) 3. The neglect of Eleazar and Ithama...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LEV X contains four appendices on the priests-' duties, of which the first and the fourth are in the form of ideal narratives (a caution and a misunderstanding), like chs. 8f. LEVITICUS 10:1. THE SIN...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    DO NOT DRINK WINE, NOR STRONG DRINK— See the note on Leviticus 10:1. By _strong drink,_ is here meant, such inflammatory intoxicating liquors, as were made in imitation of wine; as of dates, figs, hon...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. THE SIN AND PUNISHMENT OF NADAB AND ABIHU 10:1-20 a. THEIR SIN Leviticus 10:1 b. THEIR PUNISHMENT Leviticus 10:2 c. THE WARNING Leviticus 10:3 d. DISPOSAL OF THE BODIES...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO AARON, SAYING,_ Do not drink wine ... This prohibition, and the accompanying admonitions, following immediately the occurrence of so fatal a catastrophe, has given rise to an...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SIN AND DEATH OF NADAB AND ABIHU An illustration of the necessity of a punctilious observance of the regulations. We have no means of ascertaining the precise nature of the trespass committed by the t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DO NOT DRINK WINE. — As the command that the priests are to abstain from any intoxicating liquors when performing their sacred functions follows so closely upon the death of Nadab and Abihu, the opini...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יַ֣יִן וְ שֵׁכָ֞ר אַל ־תֵּ֣שְׁתְּ ׀ אַתָּ֣ה ׀

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    NADAB'S AND ABIHU'S "STRANGE FIRE" Leviticus 10:1 The solemn and august ceremonies of the consecration of the priests, and the tabernacle, and the inauguration of the tabernacle service, had a sad an...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CAREFULNESS AFTER JUDGMENT Leviticus 10:8 "And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying, Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: i...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A DEED THAT TURNED JOY INTO GRIEF Leviticus 9:22; Leviticus 10:1 There was a double blessing. First, Aaron blessed the people when he stood against the altar, Leviticus 9:22, and afterward, when he c...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the record there breaks in a story full of solemn significance. Two sons of Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu were guilty of offering strange fire before the Lord. They were swiftly consumed by fire. The ver...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Drunk. Hebrew shekar; which the Septuagint and Vulgate commonly translate by sicera, any strong liquor, (St. Jerome) particularly palm-wine. (St. Chrysostom in Isai. v. 11.) Jonathan says old wine. He...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Some have thought from this precept, that the sin of Aaron's sons was drunkenness. It is possible that Nadab and Abihu might have been intoxicated at the time they offered the strange fire. But then,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._Do not drink wine, nor strong drink. _The second cleanness required in the priests is that they should abstain from wine, and strong drink; (188) in which word Jerome says that everything intoxicat...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Lastly, we have what, alas! is always the case with man. The first day the priesthood is established, it comes short of the glory of God. Nadab and Abihu offer strange fire, acting as men in nature in...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    DO NOT DRINK WINE OR STRONG DRINK,.... This law following upon the affair of Nadab and Abihu has caused some to think, and not without some reason, that they were drunk with wine or strong drink, when...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations: Ver. 9...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Do not drink wine nor strong drink_ It is certainly not improbable that the sin of Nadab and Abihu was owing to this. But if not, yet drunkenness is so odious a sin in itself, especially in a ministe...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Nadab and Abihu, for offering of strange fire, are burnt by fire. 6 Aaron and his sonnes are forbidden to mourne for them. 8 The Priests are forbidden wine when they are to goe into the Tabernacle...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CHIEFLY OF THE SECOND TABLE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, to the very edge of the property line, NEITHER SHALT THOU GATHER THE GLEANINGS OF THY HARVEST, single st...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PRIESTS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    FAILURE IN THE PRIESTHOOD (VV. 1-7) Priestly ministry had barely begun when those entrusted with it failed seriously. Two of Aaron's four sons put in their censers incense other than that which the Lo...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-11 Do not drink wine or strong drink. During the time they ministered, the priests were forbidden it. It is required of gospel ministers, that they be not given to wine, 1 Timothy 3:3. It is, Lest y...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This is here added, either because Nadab and Abihu had been led to their error by drinking too much, which might easily fall out when they were feasting and full of joy for their entrance into so hono...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The page of human history has ever been a sadly blotted one. It is a record of failure, from first to last. Amid all the delights of Eden, man hearkened to the tempter's lie. (Genesis 1:24) When prese...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 10:9 drink H8354 (H8799) wine H3196 drink H7941 sons H1121 go H935 (H8800) tabernacle H168 meeting...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, so that you do not die, it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations,” The first impor...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Strange fire of Nadab and Abihu. CHARACTERS: God, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazer, Moses, Aaron, Ithamar, Michael, Elzaphan. CONCLUSION: It is fatal to act in the things of God without seeking the m...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 10:1. _Strange fire._ Having, as some rabbins think, from the 9th verse, drank too freely at the feast, they inconsiderately took fire from the boiler, instead of taking it from off the alta...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Do not drink wine._ HELP TO TEMPERANCE Combine with this verse Jeremiah 35:6; Ephesians 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:7. Intemperance, one of the giant evils of the land, is self-imposed. This is its sadd

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Reckless Ministry Sternly Rebuked SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 10:1.—Nahab and Abihu offered strange fire. Whether they were prompted by impetuous religious feeling, or were confused with wine, the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE COMMAND TO ABSTAIN FROM WINE (Leviticus 10:8-3). The law given to Aaron (some manuscripts read Moses) against the use of wine by the priests during their ministrations, by its juxtaposi...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And Nadab and Abihu, the two sons of Aaron, took both of them their censers, and they put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He commanded them not ...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 3:3; 1 Timothy 3:8; 1 Timothy 5:23; Ephesians 5:18; E

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Drink not wine — it is not improbable, that the sin of Nadab and Abihu was owing to this very thing. But if not, yet drunkenness is so odious a sin in itself, especially in a minister, and most of all...

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