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Abihu and Nadab

How Abihu and Nadab are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.

How they are linked

  • Abihu and Nadab were siblings.

    Nadab and Abihu, Aaron's two eldest sons, died together. Each took his censer and offered strange fire, and fire went out from the Lord and devoured them.

    Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer

    Leviticus 10:1, King James Version

    they had no children

    Numbers 3:4, King James Version

    Where they cross: Leviticus 10:1-2

Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.

Every passage, in order

Leviticus 10:1-2

1And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.

2And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

Numbers 3:4

4And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.

King James Version

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