Psalms 106:18

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Psalms 106:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

18 Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

19 At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

20 They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Numbers 16:35

And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

Numbers 16:36

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 16:37

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the flames and to scatter the coals far away, because the censers are holy.

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 16:39

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

Numbers 16:40

just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.

Numbers 16:46

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

Hebrews 12:29

“For our God is a consuming fire.”