STRANGE FIRE

    ‘And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of
    them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense
    thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which
    He commanded them not. 2. And there went out fire from
    the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the
    Lord. 3. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that
    the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them
    that come nigh Me, and before all the people I will be
    glorified. And Aaron held his peace. 4. And Moses called
    Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of
    Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren
    from before the sanctuary out of the camp. 5. So they went
    near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as
    Moses had said. 6. And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto
    Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons. Uncover not your
    heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest
    wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren,
    the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the
    Lord hath kindled. 7. And ye shall not go out from the
    door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die:
    for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they
    did according to the word of Moses. 8. And the Lord
    spake unto Aaron, saying, 9. Do not drink wine nor strong
    drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the
    tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be
    a statute for ever throughout your generations; 10. And
    that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and
    between unclean and clean; 11. And that ye may teach the
    children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath
    spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.’–LEV. x. 1-11.
This solemn story of sin and punishment is connected with the preceding
chapter by a simple ‘and.’ Probably, therefore, Nadab and Abihu
‘offered strange fire,’ immediately after the fire from Jehovah had
consumed the appointed sacrifice. Their sin was aggravated by the time
of its being committed. But a week had passed since the consecration of
their father and themselves as priests. The first sacrifices had just
been offered, and here, in the very blossoming time, came a vile
canker. If such licence in setting aside the prescriptions of the newly
established sacrificial order asserted itself then, to what lengths
might it not run when the first impression of sanctity and of God’s
commandment had been worn by time and custom? The sin was further
aggravated by the sinners being priests, who were doubly obliged to
punctilious adherence to the instituted ritual. If they set the example
of contempt, would not the people better (or, rather, worsen) their
instruction?
Unquestionably, their punishment was awfully severe. But we shall
entirely misconceive their sin if we judge it by our standards. We are
not dependent on forms as Israel was, but the spiritual religion of
Christianity was only made possible by the externalism of the older
system. The sweet kernel would not have softened and become juicy
without the shelter of the hard shell. Scaffolding is needed to erect a
building; and he is not a wise man who either despises or would keep
permanently standing the scaffold poles.
We draw a broad distinction between positive commandments and moral or
religious obligations. But in the Mosaic legislation that distinction
does not exist. There, all precepts are God’s uttered will, and all
disobedience is rebellion against Him. Nor could it be otherwise at the
stage of development which Israel had reached.
What, then, was the crime of these two rash sons of Aaron? That
involves two questions: What did they do? and What was the sin of doing
it? The former question may be answered in various ways. Certainly the
designation of ‘strange fire’ seems best explained by the usual
supposition that it means fire not taken from the altar. The other
explanations, which make the sin to have been offering at an
unauthorised time, or offering incense not compounded according to the
prescription, give an unnatural meaning to the phrase. It was the
‘fire’ which was wrong,–that is, it was ‘fire which they had kindled,’
caught up from some common culinary hearth, or created by themselves in
some way.
What was their sin in thus offering it? Plainly, the narrative points
to the essence of the crime in calling it ‘fire which He had not
commanded.’ So this was their crime, that they were tampering with the
appointed order which but a week before they had been consecrated to
conserve and administer; that they were thus thrusting in self-will and
personal caprice, as of equal authority with the divine commandment;
that they were arrogating the right to cut and carve God’s
appointments, as the whim or excitement of the moment dictated; and
that they were doing their best to obliterate the distinction on the
preservation of which religion, morality, and the national existence
depended; namely, the distinction between holy and common, clean and
unclean. To plough that distinction deep into the national
consciousness was no small part of the purpose of the law; and here
were two of its appointed witnesses disregarding it, and flying in its
face. The flash of holy fire consuming the sacrifices had scarcely
faded off their eyeballs when they thus sinned.
They have had many successors, not only in Israel, while a ritual
demanding punctilious conformity lasted, but in Christendom since.
Alas! our censers are often flaming with ‘strange fire.’ How much
so-called Christian worship glows with self-will or with partisan zeal!
When we seek to worship God for what we can get, when we rush into His
presence with hot, eager desires which we have not subordinated to His
will, we are burning ‘strange fire which He has not commanded.’ The
only fire which should kindle the incense in our censers, and send it
up to heaven in fragrant wreaths, is fire caught from the altar of
sacrifice. God must kindle the flame in our hearts if we are to render
these else cold hearts to Him.
  ‘The prayers I bring will then be sweet indeed
   If Thou the Spirit give, by which I pray.’
The swift, terrible punishment does indeed bear marks of the severity
of that earlier stage of revelation. But it was not disproportioned to
the offence, and it was not the cruelty of a martinet who avenged
ceremonial lapses with penalties which should have been kept for moral
offences. The surface of the sin was ceremonial impropriety: the heart
of it was flouting Jehovah and His law. It was better that two men
should die, and the whole nation perish not, as it would have done if
their example had been followed. It is mercy to trample out the first
sparks beside a powder-barrel.
There is a very striking parallel between verse 2 and the last verse of
the preceding chapter. In both the same expression is used, ‘There came
forth fire from before the Lord, and consumed’ (the word rendered
_devoured_ in verse 2 is the same in Hebrew as _consumed_). So, then,
the same divine fire, which had graciously signified God’s acceptance
of the appointed sacrifice, now flashed out with lightning-like power
of destruction, and killed the two rebel priests. There is dormant
potency of destruction in the God who reveals Himself as gracious. The
‘wrath of the Lamb’ is as real as His gentleness. The Gospel is ‘the
savour of life unto life’ and ‘of death unto death.’
Moses’ word to the stunned father is of a piece with the severity of
the whole incident. No voice of condolence or sympathy comes from him.
The brother is swallowed up in the lawgiver. He puts into words the
meaning of the terrible stroke, and expects Aaron to acquiesce, though
his heart bleeds. What was his interpretation? He saw in it God’s
purpose to be ‘sanctified in them that come nigh Him.’ The priests were
these. Nadab and Abihu had been consecrated for the purpose of
enforcing the truth of God’s holiness. They had done the very opposite,
by breaking down the distinction between sacred and common.
But their nearness to God brought with it not only corresponding
obligations, but corresponding criminality and penalty, if these
obligations were not discharged. If God is not ‘sanctified’ _by_ His
servants, He will sanctify Himself _on_ them. If His people do not set
forth His infinite separation from all evil and elevation above all
creatures, He will proclaim these truths in lightning that kills and
thunder that roars. It is a universal law which Moses sternly spoke to
Aaron instead of comfort, bidding him recognise the necessity of the
fearful blow to his paternal heart. ‘You only have I known of all the
families of the earth, therefore I will punish you for all your
iniquities.’
The prohibition to Aaron and his sons to show signs of mourning is as
stern as the rest of the story, and serves to insist upon the true
point of view from which to regard it. For the official representatives
of the divine order of worship to mourn the deaths of its assailants
would have seemed to indicate their murmuring at God’s judgments, and
might have led them to participate in the sin while they lamented its
punishment. It is hard to mourn and not to repine. Affection blinds to
the ill-desert of its objects. Nadab’s and Abihu’s stark corpses lying
in the forecourt of the sanctuary, and Aaron’s dry eyes and undisturbed
attire, proclaim the same truths,–the gravity of the dead men’s sin,
and the righteous judgment of God. But the people might sorrow, for
_their_ mourning would help to imprint on them more deeply the lessons
of the dread event.
While the victims’ cousins carried their bodies to their graves in the
sand, their father and brothers had to remain in the Tabernacle,
because ‘the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you.’ That oil, as the
symbol of the Spirit, separates those on whom it is poured from all
contact with death, from participation in sin, from the weight of
sorrow. What have immortality, righteousness, joy in the Holy Ghost, to
do with these dark shadows? Those whom God has called to His immediate
service must hold themselves apart from earthly passions, and must
control natural affection, if indulging it imperils their clear witness
to God’s righteous will.
The prohibition (verses 8-11) of wine and strong drink during the
discharge of the priestly functions seems to suggest that Nadab and
Abihu had committed their sin while in some degree intoxicated. Be that
as it may, the prohibition is rested upon the necessity of preserving,
in all its depth and breadth, the distinction between common and holy
which Nadab and Abihu had broken down. That distinction was to be very
present to the priest in his work, and how could he have the clearness
of mind, the collectedness and composure, the sense of the sanctity of
his office, and ministrations which it requires and gives, if he was
under the influence of strong drink?
Nothing has more power to blur the sharpness of moral and religious
insight than even a small amount of alcohol. God must be worshipped
with clear brain and naturally beating heart. Not the fumes of wine, in
which there lurks almost necessarily the tendency to ‘excess,’ but the
being ‘filled with the Spirit’ supplies the only legitimate stimulus to
devotion. Besides the personal reason for abstinence, there was
another,–namely, that only so could the priests teach the people ‘the
statutes’ of Jehovah. Lips stained from the wine-cup would not be fit
to speak holy words. Words spoken by such would carry no power.
God’s servants can never impress on the sluggish conscience of society
their solemn messages from God, unless they are conspicuously free from
self-indulgence, and show by their example the gulf, wide as between
heaven and hell, which parts cleanness from uncleanness. Our lives must
witness to the eternal distinction between good and evil, if we are to
draw men to ‘abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is
good.’

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Bible Verses About love – Psalms 119:119
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

Bible Verses About love – Ephesians 1:15
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

Bible Scriptures – John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Bible Verses About love – Corinthians-2 13:11
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Bible Verses About love – Ezekiel 23:17
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

Bible Verses About stolen – Proverbs 9:17
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.

Bible Verses About amorite – Numbers 21:25
And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

Bible Verses About seize – Psalms 55:15
Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.

Bible Verses About fruits – Revelations 22:2
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.

Bible Verses About jesse – Samuel-1 20:31
For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

Bible Verses About passover – Exodus 12:48
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

Bible Verses About kiriath – Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Bible Verses About fault – Deuteronomy 25:2
And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

Bible Verses About watercourse – Job 38:25
Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

Bible Verses About unholy – Timothy-2 3:2
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Bible Verses About humility – Peter-1 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Bible Verses About gomorrah – Isaiah 1:9
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Bible Verses About chaff – Luke 3:17
Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

Bible Verses About quaked – Samuel-1 14:15
And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

Bible Verses About accuser – Acts 24:8
Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.

Bible Verses About acceptable – Psalms 19:14
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Bible Verses About builder – Peter-1 2:7
Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

Bible Verses About temper – Exodus 29:2
And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: [of] wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

Bible Verses About flood – Job 20:17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

Bible Verses About maiden – Ezekiel 44:22
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

Bible Verses About dreams – Samuel-1 28:6
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

Bible Verses About kindness – Psalms 92:2
To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

Bible Verses About patience – Romans 5:3
And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Bible Verses About jealousy – Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Bible Verses About joy – Job 29:13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Bible Verses About trust – Jeremiah 12:5
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

Bible Verses About fathers – Jeremiah 11:5
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

Bible Verses About lying – Psalms 109:2
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Bible Verses About life – Luke 14:26
If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Bible Verses About fasting – Esther 4:3
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, [there was] great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Bible Verses About women – Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Bible Verses About tongue – Psalms 137:6
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Bible Verses About love – Corinthians-2 9:7
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Bible Verses About clean – Chronicles-2 29:18
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table, with all the vessels thereof.

Bible Verses About wife – Peter-1 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Bible Verses About peace – Ephesians 2:14
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];

Bible Verses About faith – Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Bible Verses About wisdom – Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Bible Verses About strength – Isaiah 33:23
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

Bible Verses About visions – Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

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Bible Verses About money – Proverbs 20:14
A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

Bible Verses About wife – Genesis 4:17
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.

Bible Verses About giving – Luke 5:28
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.

Bible Verses About fear – Isaiah 8:9
Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:

Bible Verses About salvation – Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.

Bible Verses About hope – Hebrews 12:5
And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

Bible Verses About prayer – Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

Bible Verses About visions – 1-Chronicles 26:1
For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.

Bible Verses About fathers – Jeremiah 16:3
For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

Bible Verses About baptism – John 4:2
(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),

Bible Verses About tonight – Genesis 30:15
But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits.

Bible Verses About slow – Matthew 13:15
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

Bible Verses About representative – Isaiah 44:26
Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:

Bible Verses About chance – Leviticus 6:3
Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,

Bible Verses About necessary – 2-Corinthians 12:1
As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Bible Verses About harmon – 2-Corinthians 13:14
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the harmony of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Bible Verses About hanani – Daniel 1:7
And the captain of the unsexed servants gave them names; to Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar, to Hananiah the name of Shadrach, to Mishael the name of Meshach, and to Azariah the name of Abed-nego.

Bible Verses About trick – Isaiah 19:13
The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.

Bible Verses About private – 2-Chronicles 31:3
And he gave the king's part of his private property for the burned offerings, that is, for the morning and evening offerings, and the offerings for the Sabbath and the new moons and the regular feasts, as it is recorded in the law of the Lord.

Bible Verses About distribution – Ezekiel 45:1
And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy.

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Bible Verses About possession – Joshua 22:9
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

Bible Verses About conscience – Hebrews 10:2
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Bible Verses About crying – Malachi 2:13
And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth [it] with good will at your hand.

Bible Verses About esau – Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

Bible Verses About watchman – Kings-2 9:18
So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.

Bible Verses About suck – Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

Bible Verses About loins – Kings-1 2:5
Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, [and] what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that [was] about his loins, and in his shoes that [were] on his feet.

Bible Verses About sixth – Chronicles-1 26:5
Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.

Bible Verses About issachar – Chronicles-1 7:5
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar [were] valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

Bible Verses About harlot – Proverbs 7:10
And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.

Bible Verses About wonder – Daniel 12:6
And [one] said to the man clothed in linen, which [was] upon the waters of the river, How long [shall it be to] the end of these wonders?

Bible Verses About arise – Matthew 27:62
Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

Bible Verses About multitudes – Matthew 14:22
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

Bible Verses About shiloh – Joshua 18:10
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

Bible Verses About oath – Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

Bible Verses About ungodly – Psalms 1:1
Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Bible Verses About heritage – Micha 7:14
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Bible Verses About recover – Chronicles-2 14:13
And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.

Bible Verses About shoes – Luke 3:16
John answered, saying unto [them] all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

Bible Verses About prevail – Samuel-1 2:9
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

Bible Scriptures About possess – Numbers 33:53
And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants] of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

Bible Scriptures About inheritance – Kings-1 21:4
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

Bible Scriptures About possession – Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Bible Scriptures About smite – Mark 14:27
And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

Bible Scriptures About camp – Kings-2 7:8
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid [it]; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence [also], and went and hid [it].

Bible Scriptures About obedience – Romans 1:5
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Bible Scriptures About whoredom – Hosea 6:10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Bible Scriptures About corn – Hosea 2:9
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.

Bible Scriptures About captivity – Jeremiah 29:31
Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

Bible Scriptures About heart – Job 10:13
And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee.