Altar Beaten Broad Censers Cost Cover Covering Fire-pans Forfeited Hallowed Hammer Hammered Holy Israelites Offered Overlay Payment Plates Plating Present Presented Sheets Sign Sin Sinned Sinners Sons Souls Spread-out Thus Vessels
16:38 The censers of these sinners {o} 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 {p} sign unto the children of Israel.
(o) Who caused their own death.
(p) Of God's judgments against rebels.
16:38 Their own souls - That is, their own lives: who were the authors of their own destruction. The altar - Of burnt - offerings, which was made of wood, but covered with brass before this time, Exo 27:1,2, to which this other covering was added for farther ornament, and security against the fire, continually burning upon it. A sign - A warning to all strangers to take heed of invading the priesthood.
16:35-40 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.
Altar Beaten Broad Censers Children Covering Hallowed Hammered Holy Israel Offered Plates Plating Sheets Sign Sinned Sinners Souls
Altar Beaten Broad Censers Children Covering Hallowed Hammered Holy Israel Offered Plates Plating Sheets Sign Sinned Sinners Souls
