Leviticus 10:15

_AND MOSES SPAKE UNTO AARON, AND UNTO ELEAZAR AND UNTO ITHAMAR, HIS SONS THAT WERE LEFT, TAKE THE MEAT OFFERING THAT REMAINETH OF THE OFFERINGS OF THE LORD MADE BY FIRE, AND EAT IT WITHOUT LEAVEN BESIDE THE ALTAR: FOR IT IS MOST HOLY:_ Moses spake unto Aaron ... This was a timely and considerate rehearsal of the laws that regulated the conduct of the priests. Amid the distractions of their family bereavement, Aaron and his surviving sons might have forgotten or overlooked some of their duties (cf. Deuteronomy 16:11; Deuteronomy 16:14); but those only might partake of them who were themselves ceremonially clean. Verse 15. A STATUTE FOR EVER. It is repeatedly said that the injunctions addressed to Aaron and his sons were not for them as individuals only, but

12-20 Afflictions should rather quicken us to our duty, than take us from it. But our unfitness for duty, when it is natural and not sinful, will have great allowances made for it; God will have mercy, and not sacrifice. Let us profit by the solemn warning this history conveys. When professing worshippers come with zeal without knowledge, carnal affections, earthly, light, vain, trifling thoughts, the devices of will-worship, instead of the offering of soul and spirit; then the incense is kindled by a flame which never came down from heaven, which the Spirit of a holy God never sent within their hearts....

The argument is, that as such meals were appointed in honor of Yahweh Himself, they ought to be conducted with due reverence and discretion. Leviticus 10:12 BESIDE THE ALTAR - What is called “the holy place” in Leviticus 10:13, Leviticus 10:17 : it should be rather, a holy place, any part of the holy precinct, as distinguished from a merely “clean place” Leviticus 10:14, either within or without the court of the tabernacle. Leviticus 10:14...

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 juxtaposition with what has gone before, has led to the probable supposition that Nadab and Abihu had acted under the excitement of intoxicating drink. It is possible that the sacrificial meals on the peace offerings had begun, and that at the same time that the congregation was feasting, the two priests had refreshed themselves with wine after their long service. The special ceremonial meal of the priests had not yet been eaten. LEVITICUS 10:10 Wine and other into

THE HEAVE SHOULDER AND WAVE BREAST SHALL THEY BRING,.... Not the priests, but the owners to the priests, Leviticus 7:29: WITH THE OFFERINGS MADE BY FIRE OF THE FAT: upon the inwards, kidneys, and caul of the liver, which was all burnt: TO WAVE [IT] FOR A WAVE OFFERING BEFORE THE LORD, the shoulder was lifted up, and the breast waved to and fro before the Lord of the whole earth, and towards the several parts of it, to show and own his right to all they had, and then they were given to the priests as a token of it: AND IT SHALL BE THINE, AND THY SONS WITH THEE; both the shoulder and the breast: BY A STATUTE FOR EVER, to be observed as long as the ceremonial law and Levitical priesthood lasted, even to the end of the Jewish age and economy, and the coming of the Messiah: as the Lord hath commanded

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 Ithamar (Leviticus 10:16) The ceremonies were ended and the people, beholding the glory of the Lord, had worshipped. A terrible occurrence follows the beautiful ending to the previous chapter. Nadab and Abihu, two sons of Aaron, offered strange fire before Jehovah. The fire before Jehovah devoured them and they died before the Lord. The sin consisted in taking strange fire, which Jehovah had not commanded; most likely it was fire they produced themselves, instead of taking the fire f

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 OF NADAB AND ABIHU. Nadab and Abihu, the eldest sons of Aaron (Exodus 6:23), had been privileged to go up and see the God of Israel with Moses and Aaron and seventy elders (Exodus 24:1 ff., J). Here, they offer fire which has not been taken from the altar hearth or was not in accordance with the proper receipt for the sacred incense, and are themselves at once consumed. The bodies are withdrawn from the camp by their father's cousins, and Aaron and his remaining sons are forbidden to mourn for them. The catastrophe i

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 right _Torah_. Others have thought that the words in the last clause of Leviticus 10:11 -the Lord hath spoken" shew that it is not connected with Leviticus 10:8, and that Leviticus 10:9 seems marked off by its last clause from what follows. Leviticus 10:10 would form an appropriate introduction to chs. 11 15. Driver and White (Haupt's _SBOT._, _ad loc._) think that something may have fallen out here. (5)...

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 Leviticus 10:4-7 e. INSTRUCTIONS TO AARON AND HIS SONS Leviticus 10:8-11 f. DISPOSAL OF THE OFFERINGS Leviticus 10:12-20 TEXT 10:1-20 1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons

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 two eldest sons of Aaron. In view of Leviticus 16:12 (cp. Numbers 16:46; Revelation 8:5) we may suppose that the sin Jay in the use of common fire, instead of fire taken from the altar. But the phrase STRANGE FIRE is wide enough to cover any breach of the laws regulating the preparation and use of incense (see Exodus 30:1; Exodus 30:34).