Imamat 10:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kemudian anak-anak Harun, Nadab dan Abihu, masing-masing mengambil perbaraannya, membubuh api ke dalamnya serta menaruh ukupan di atas api itu. Dengan demikian mereka mempersembahkan ke hadapan TUHAN api yang asing yang tidak diperintahkan-Nya kepada mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kemudian anak-anak Harun, Nadab dan Abihu, masing-masing mengambil perbaraannya, membubuh api ke dalamnya serta menaruh ukupan di atas api itu. Dengan demikian mereka mempersembahkan ke hadapan TUHAN api yang asing yang tidak diperintahkan-Nya kepada mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sebermula, maka oleh Nadab dan Abihu, anak-anak Harun itu, diambil masing-masing akan pedupaannya, dibubuhnya api ke dalamnya dan diletakkannya dupa di atas api itu, maka dalam itu dibawanya ke hadapan hadirat Tuhan akan api yang tiada patut, yaitu yang tiada diperintahkan demikian.

Contextual Overview

¹ And Nadab and Abihu, the sonnes of Aaron, toke eyther of the his censar, and put fire therein, and put cense therevpon, and offred straunge fire before the Lorde, whiche he commaunded them not. ² And there went a fire from the Lord, and consumed them, and they dyed before the Lorde.

Bible Verse Review
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Nadab: Leviticus 16:1, Leviticus 22:9, Exodus 6:23, Exodus 24:1, Exodus 24:9, Exodus 28:1, Numbers 3:3, Numbers 3:4, Numbers 26:61

censer: Leviticus 16:12, Exodus 27:3, Exodus 38:3, Numbers 16:6, Numbers 16:7, Numbers 16:16, Numbers 16:17, Numbers 16:46, Hebrews 9:4

put incense: Exodus 30:1-9, Exodus 30:34-36, Exodus 31:11, Exodus 37:29, Exodus 40:27, 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:2, 2 Chronicles 26:16-20, Psalms 141:2, Jeremiah 44:8, Jeremiah 44:15, Jeremiah 44:19-21, Luke 1:9-11, Revelation 8:3-5

strange: Leviticus 9:24, Leviticus 16:12, Numbers 16:18, Numbers 16:46

which: Exodus 30:9, Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 12:32, Deuteronomy 17:3, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:5, Jeremiah 32:35,Bp. Hall says, "It is a dangerous thing, in the service of God, to decline from his institutions; we have to do with a God, who is wise to prescribe his own worship - just to require what he has prescribed - and powerful to avenge what he has not prescribed.

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:27 - as he shall Exodus 19:22 - the priests Exodus 30:20 - die not Leviticus 1:7 - fire Leviticus 8:35 - keep Numbers 4:18 - General Numbers 20:11 - smote 1 Samuel 6:19 - he smote 2 Samuel 6:7 - God smote 1 Chronicles 6:3 - Nadab 1 Chronicles 13:10 - there he died 1 Chronicles 23:13 - to burn incense 1 Chronicles 24:1 - The sons Job 36:14 - They die Psalms 119:120 - My flesh Ezekiel 22:26 - put no Acts 5:1 - General 1 Corinthians 11:27 - whosoever Hebrews 2:2 - every

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.

Genesis 5:1
This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.

Genesis 9:1
And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.

Genesis 9:7
But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.

Genesis 9:19
These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread.

Matthew 1:1
This is the booke of the generation of Iesus Christ, the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 the people, see Leviticus 9:1:

and offered strange fire before the Lord; upon the golden altar of incense, which stood in the holy place right against the vail, within which were the ark, mercy seat, and cherubim, the symbol and seat of the divine Majesty: this fire was not that which came down from heaven, and consumed the sacrifice, as related at the end of the preceding chapter Leviticus 9:24, but common fire, and therefore called strange; it was not taken off of the altar of burnt offering, as it ought to have been, but, as the Targum of Jonathan, from under the trivets, skillets, or pots, such as the flesh of peace offerings were boiled in, in the tabernacle;

which he commanded not; yea, forbid, by sending fire from heaven, and ordering coals of fire for the incense to be taken off of the altar of burnt offering; and this, as Aben Ezra observes, they did of their own mind, and not by order. It does not appear that they had any command to offer incense at all at present, this belonged to Aaron, and not to them as yet; but without any instruction and direction they rushed into the holy place with their censers, and offered incense, even both of them, when only one priest was to offer at a time, when it was to be offered, and this they also did with strange fire. This may be an emblem of dissembled love, when a man performs religious duties, prays to God, or praises him without any cordial affection to him, or obeys commands not from love, but selfish views; or of an ignorant, false, and misguided zeal, a zeal not according to knowledge, superstitious and hypocritical; or of false and strange doctrines, such as are not of God, nor agree with the voice of Christ, and are foreign to the Scriptures; or of human ordinances, and the inventions of men, and of everything that man brings of his own, in order to obtain eternal life and salvation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nadab and Abihu - The two elder sons of Aaron Exodus 6:23; Numbers 3:2, who were among those invited to accompany Moses when he was going up Mount Sinai, but who were “to worship afar off,” and not “come near the Lord.” Exodus 24:1-2.

Censer - See Exodus 25:38 note.

Strange fire - The point of their offence is evidently expressed in this term. This may very probably mean that the incense was lighted at an unauthorized time. And we may reasonably unite with this the supposition that they were intoxicated (compare Leviticus 10:9), as well as another conjecture, that they made their offering of incense an accompaniment to the exultation of the people on the manifestation of the glory of the Lord Leviticus 9:24. As they perished not within the tabernacle, but in front of it, it seems likely that they may have been making an ostentatious and irreverent display of their ministration to accompany the shouts of the people on their way toward the tabernacle. The offence for which they were immediately visited with outward punishment was thus a flagrant outrage on the solemn order of the divine service, while the cause of their offence may have been their guilty excess.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER X

Nadab and Abihu offer strange fire before the Lord, and are

destroyed, 1-5.

Aaron and his family forbidden to mourn for them, 6, 7.

He and his family are forbidden the use of wine, 8-11.

Directions to Aaron and his sons concerning the eating of the

meat-offerings, c., 12-15.

Moses chides Aaron for not having eaten the sin-offering, 16-18.

Aaron excuses himself, and Moses is satisfied, 19, 20.

NOTES ON CHAP. X

Verse Leviticus 10:1. And Nadab and Abihu - took either of them his censer — The manner of burning incense in the temple service was, according to the Jews, as follows: - "One went and gathered the ashes from off the altar into a golden vessel, a second brought a vessel full of incense, and a third brought a censer with fire, and put coals on the altar, and he whose office it was to burn the incense strewed it on the fire at the command of the governor. At the same time all the people went out of the temple from between the porch and the altar. Each day they burned the weight of a hundred denaries of incense, fifty in the morning, and fifty in the evening. The hundred denaries weighed fifty shekels of the sanctuary, each shekel weighing three hundred and twenty barleycorns and when the priest had burned the incense, he bowed himself down and went his way out. See Maimonides' Treatise of the Daily Service, chap. iii. So when Zacharias, as his lot fell, burned incense in the temple, the whole multitude of the people were without at prayer while the incense was burning, Luke 1:9-10. By this service God taught them that the prayers of his faithful people are pleasing to him, whilst our High Priest, Christ Jesus, by his mediation puts incense to their prayers; (see Psalms 141:2; Romans 8:34; Hebrews 8:1-2; Hebrews 9:24; Revelation 8:3-4;) for the priests under the law served unto the example and shadow of heavenly things; Hebrews 8:5." See Ainsworth in loco.

In the preceding chapter we have seen how God intended that every part of his service should be conducted; and that every sacrifice might be acceptable to him, he sent his own fire as the emblem of his presence, and the means of consuming the sacrifice. - Here we find Aaron's sons neglecting the Divine ordinance, and offering incense with strange, that is, common fire, - fire not of a celestial origin; and therefore the fire of God consumed them. So that very fire which, if properly applied, would have sanctified and consumed their gift, became now the very instrument of their destruction! How true is the saying, The Lord is a consuming fire! He will either hallow or destroy us: he will purify our souls by the influence of his Spirit, or consume them with the breath of his mouth! The tree which is properly planted in a good soil is nourished by the genial influences of the sun: pluck it up from its roots, and the sun which was the cause of its vegetative life and perfection now dries up its juices, decomposes its parts, and causes it to moulder into dust. Thus must it be done to those who grieve and do despite to the Spirit of God. Reader, hast thou this heavenly fire? Hear then the voice of God, QUENCH not the SPIRIT.

Some critics are of opinion that the fire used by the sons of Aaron was the sacred fire, and that it is only called strange from the manner of placing the incense on it. I cannot see the force of this opinion.

Which he commanded them not. — Every part of the religion of God is Divine. He alone knew what he designed by its rites and ceremonies, for that which they prefigured - the whole economy of redemption by Christ - was conceived in his own mind, and was out of the reach of human wisdom and conjecture. He therefore who altered any part of this representative system, who omitted or added any thing, assumed a prerogative which belonged to God alone, and was certainly guilty of a very high offence against the wisdom, justice, and righteousness of his Maker. This appears to have been the sin of Nadab and Abihu, and this at once shows the reason why they were so severely punished. The most awful judgments are threatened against those who either add to, or take away from, the declarations of God. See Deuteronomy 4:2; Proverbs 30:6; and Revelation 22:18-19.