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Abihu

American  
[uh-bahy-hyoo] / əˈbaɪ hju /
Douay Bible, Abiu

noun

  1. (in the Bible) a son of Aaron who, with his brother Nadab, was consumed by fire from heaven for disobeying the Lord.


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Nadab and Abihu had been consecrated for the purpose of enforcing the truth of God's holiness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

Come up unto Jehovah, thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders, and worship ye afar off; and Moses alone shall come near Jehovah, but they shall not come nigh....

From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Lord, Eleazar

But they had to pay the penalty nevertheless: Nadab and Abihu, by being burned at the consecration of the Tabernacle, and the elders similarly, at Taberah.

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Radin, Paul

Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu Climbed and saw the very God, the Highest,175 Stand upon the paved work of a sapphire.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Nadab and Abihu took either of them his censer.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

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