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Abihu

American  
[uh-bahy-hyoo] / əˈbaɪ hyu /
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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And God said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of Israel.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and they saw the Elohe of Israel, and there was under his feet as it were a paved work....

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

Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel.

From Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities by Cooper, Robert

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

Moncæus said that Aaron got his idea on the mountain, where he was once admitted with Moses; and on another occasion with Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders.

From The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices by Anonymous