Abihu

Gender: Male

Years: -1700 - -1015

Dictionary Text: Father of Him; i.e., “worshipper of God”, the second of the sons of Aaron;;;. Along with his three brothers he was consecrated to the priest’s office. With his father and elder brother he accompanied the seventy elders part of the way up the mount with Moses,. On one occasion he and Nadab his brother offered incense in their censers filled with “strange” fire, i.e., not with fire taken from the great brazen altar, etc., and for this offence they were struck dead, and were taken out and buried without the camp; comp.;;. It is probable that when they committed this offence they were intoxicated, for immediately after is given the law prohibiting the use of wine or strong drink to the priests.

Family Members

• Father: Aaron
• Mother: Elisheba
• Siblings:
  • Nadab
  • Ithamar
  • Eleazar

Verses

• Numbers 3:4: 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.
• Exodus 24:9: Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
• Exodus 6:23: And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
• 1 Chronicles 24:1: Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
• 1 Chronicles 24:2: But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.
• Numbers 3:2: And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
• Leviticus 10:1: 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.
• 1 Chronicles 6:3: And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
• Exodus 24:1: And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.
• Numbers 26:61: And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
• Exodus 28:1: And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
• Numbers 26:60: And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.