1 Chronicles 24:2 Cross References - NSB

² Nadab and Abihu died before their father died, and neither had any children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

¹ Jehovah said to Moses: »You and Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders come up the mountain to me and worship at a distance.

⁹ Moses and Aaron, together with Nadab and Abihu and the seventy leaders, went up the mountain.

⁹ »Then ordain them, because they and their descendants will have a long lasting priesthood.

² A fire flashed from Jehovah and burned them. They died in the presence of Jehovah.

¹² Moses spoke to Aaron and his two remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar. He said: »Take the grain offering that is left over from the food offered to Jehovah. Bake unleavened bread with it and eat it beside the altar. This is because this offering is very holy.

⁴ Nadab and Abihu died in Jehovah’s presence because they offered unauthorized fire in his presence in the Desert of Sinai. They had no children. So only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

³⁹ The priest Eleazar took the copper incense burners that had been brought by those who had been burned to death. The incense burners were then hammered into thin metal sheets to cover the altar. ⁴⁰ He followed Jehovah’s command given through Moses. The copper-covered altar will remind Israel that no one but a descendant of Aaron may come near to burn incense to Jehovah. Everyone else will die like Korah and his followers.

⁷ »Only you and your sons may do the work of priests, everything done at the altar and under the canopy. This is my gift to you: You may serve me as priests. Anyone else who comes near the holy place to do this work must die.«

⁶¹ Nadab and Abihu died because they offered unauthorized fire in Jehovah’s presence.