Numbers 16:38
Numbers · Old Testament · Chapter 16
“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.”Numbers 16:38
What Does Numbers 16:38 Mean?
Numbers 16:38 is found in the book of Numbers, chapter 16, verse 38 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Holiness.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Numbers 16:38 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Numbers 26:10“And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.”Proverbs 20:2“The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.”Jeremiah 44:7“Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;”Ezekiel 14:8“And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.”2 Peter 2:6“And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;”Numbers 17:10“And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.”1 Samuel 15:18“And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.”1 Kings 2:23“Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.”1 Kings 9:3“And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.”Habakkuk 2:10“Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.”Matthew 23:17“Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?”Genesis 19:26“But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”Exodus 27:2“And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.”Numbers 16:40“To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.”Joshua 4:6“That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?”Proverbs 1:18“And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.”Proverbs 8:36“But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.”Jeremiah 26:19“Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.”Jeremiah 42:20“For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.”1 Corinthians 10:11“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”
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