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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...
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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...
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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...
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TEACH. This was. special part of the priests' work. See note on
Deuteronomy 33:10.
CHILDREN. Hebrew sons....
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This passage may well have an immediate relation to the preceding
context, as meaning that perfect sobriety was required in order to
enable them to discriminate between -holy" and -common" and to give...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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LEVITICUS
*WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS
LEVITICUS
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
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AND THAT YE MAY TEACH. — The priests were not only to keep sober to
be able to decide the questions of ritual, but they were to teach the
people, since the ceremonial law affected domestic life and so...
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וּ לְ הֹורֹ֖ת אֶת ־בְּנֵ֣י
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֵ֚ת
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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We have reason to lament over our own ignorance in the perusal of
those scriptures, because after all our knowledge we discern so little
concerning them. But if our conscious ignorance leads the heart...
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Jeremiah 15:19....
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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...
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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...
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AND THAT YE MAY TEACH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ALL THE STATUTES,....
Laws, precepts, ordinances, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which was
the business of the priests to do, Malachi 2:7 but one inebria...
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And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which
the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Ver. 11. _And that ye may teach._] The priest's lips should both
preserve know...
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_Between holy and unholy_ Persons and things, which Nadab and Abihu
did not, mistaking unholy or common fire for that which was sacred and
appointed of God for their use. _Ye may teach_ Which drunken...
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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...
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INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PRIESTS...
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and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which
the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. The priests were
at the same time the teachers of the people, and their minds d...
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CHIEFLY OF THE SECOND TABLE...
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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...
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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...
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THAT YE MAY TEACH; be apt to teach aright, which drunken persons are
very unfit to do....
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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...
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“And that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes
which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”
The idea here is that for anyone to come short of God's requirements
is to be rendered unclea...
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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...
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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...
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_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
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 10:8 This is the only time in Leviticus
1:1 that God speaks directly to Aaron alone. God outlines three major
roles for the priesthood: (1) to
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
...
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1 Thessalonians 4:2; 2 Chronicles 17:9; 2 Chronicles 30:22; Acts
20:27;...
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Ye may teach — Which drunken persons are very unfit to do....