As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”
if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a warning.
You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.
Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!
And the Lord said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.”
Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”
but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.
to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the Lord said to him through Moses.
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