Key Verse Spotlight
Numbers 3:2 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“And these {are} the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.”
Numbers 3:2
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
These also {are} the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day {that} the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
And these {are} the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
These {are} the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. {whom...: Heb. whose hand he filled}
And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
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