Numbers 16:38

_THE CENSERS OF THESE SINNERS AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS, LET THEM MAKE THEM BROAD PLATES FOR A COVERING OF THE ALTAR: FOR THEY OFFERED THEM BEFORE THE LORD, THEREFORE THEY ARE HALLOWED: AND THEY SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

35-40 A fire went out from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense, while Aaron, who stood with them, was preserved alive. God is jealous of the honour of his own institutions, and will not have them invaded. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. The censers are devoted, and, as all devoted things, must be made serviceable to the glory of God. This covering of the altar would remind the children of Israel of this event, that others might hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously. They brought destruction on themselves both in body and soul. Thus all who break the law and neglect the gospel choose and love death....

THESE SINNERS AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS - That is, “against their own lives.” By their sin they had brought destruction upon themselves....

VINDICATION OF THE AARONIC PRIESTHOOD. EXPOSITION THE GAINSAYING OF KORAH (Numbers 16:1). NUMBERS 16:1 NOW KORAH … TOOK MEN. וַיִּקַּח קֹרַח. The word "took" stands alone at the head of the sentence in the singular number. This does not by itself confine its reference to Korah, because it may be taken as repeated after each of the other names; at the same time, the construction suggests that in its original form Korah alone was mentioned, and that the other names were afterwards added in order to include them in the same statement. The ellipsis after "took" (if it be one) may be filled up by

THE CENSERS OF THESE SINNERS AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS,.... Who by burning incense in them sinned, and by sinning hurt and ruined their souls: LET THEM MAKE THEM BROAD PLATES [FOR] A COVERING OF THE ALTAR; the altar of burnt offering, which, though it had a covering of brass, another made of these were to be over it, for the further security of it, being of from the fire continually burning on it; these censers were to be beaten into broad plates, by the workmen who understood how to do it: FOR THEY OFFERED THEM BEFORE THE LORD, THEREFORE THEY ARE HALLOWED; they offered them in his presence, they burned incense in them, and to him, though it was not their business, but the business of the priests; yet these being done, and by his orders, for an open trial who were his priests and who not, they were not to be put to common use: AND THEY SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; a memo...

6. THE REBELLION OF KORAH CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The rebellion of Korah (Numbers 16:1)_ 2. The punishment (Numbers 16:20) 3. Eleazar and his work (Numbers 16:36) 4. The murmuring of the whole congregation (Numbers 16:41) 5. The staying of the plague (Numbers 16:44) The history is now resumed and we have the worst episode of Israel's history in the wilderness before us. We have seen and followed the steps downward and toward this fearful rebellion and the terrible punishment which followed. It s

NUMBERS 16. THE REBELLION OF KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM (JE and P). The narrative fuses together accounts of distinct revolts led by different individuals and inspired by different motives. The first (from JE) had for its instigators Dathan and Abiram, who are mentioned separately in Numbers 16:12; Numbers 16:25; Numbers 16:27; Deuteronomy 11:6, and who, as Reubenites (a tribe that once possessed the primacy, Genesis 49:3), disputed the civil authority of Moses (Numb

SINNERS. See App-44. SOULS. their own selves. Hebrew. _nephesh._ THEIR OWN. Compare Genesis 19:17 and Proverbs 20:2. OFFERED. Hebrew brought near. App-43....

(om. _even) the_ FIRE-PANS _of these sinners_ AT THE COST OF _their lives_ R.V. marg. is an explanation of the R.V. But the latter is grammatically doubtful. LXX. has ὅτι ἡγίασαν τὰ πυρεῖα κ. τ. λ. (-because they made holy the fire-pans" &c.). Perhaps we should read -for the fire-pans of these sinners _have become holy_at the cost &c." Some have seen an allusion to these words in Hebrews 12:3, -such contradiction of sinners against themselves" (Westcott and Hort's text). _for a covering of the altar_ This must be the altar of burnt-offering, since the altar of incense was covered with gold, not with brass or bronze (Exodus 30:3; Exodus 37:26). But according to...

DISCOURSE: 162 KORAH’S REBELLION Numbers 16:38. _The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar; for they offered them before the Lord; therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel_. IT is painful, in perusing the history of the Israelites, to see how constantly they were murmuring and rebelling against God. Persons who are ignorant of their own hearts are ready to conceive of them as more perverse and obstinate than the rest of mankind: but they who know what human nature is, behold in their rebellions a true picture of mankind at large. In the chapter before us we have an exact representation of a popular tumult: we see the motives and principles by which factious demagogues are actuated, and the lamentable evils which they produce. The censers of which our text spea