Numbers 16:46

“And Moses said unto Aaron, take a censer, etc.] Which lay in the tabernacle: and put fire therein from off the altar; the altar of burnt offering, from whence fire only was to be taken for burning incense; and lest Aaron in his hurry should forget to take it from thence, but elsewhere, and offer strange fire as his sons had done, Moses expresses the place from whence he should take it: and put on incense: upon the fire, in the censer, which he was to do when he came into the camp, and not as soon as he took the fire from the altar: the censer with fire in it he carried in one hand, and the incense in the other; and when he was in the midst of the congregation, he put the incense on the fire,…”

“A censer - Rather, the censer. i. e. that of the high priest which was used by him on the great Day of Atonement: compare Leviticus 16:12; Hebrews 9:4. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Incense - Which was a sign of intercession, and was to be accompanied with it. Go unto the congregation - He went with the incense, to stir up the people to repentance and prayer, to prevent their utter ruin. This he might do upon this extraordinary occasion, having God's command for his warrant, though ordinarily incense was to be offered only in the tabernacle. Numbers 16:48”

“16:46-50 Moses and Aaron acted quickly to rescue the Israelites from God’s wrath. In an unusual procedure, Aaron carried an incense burner with burning coals among the people and thus stopped the plague.”

“from off: Lev 9:24, Lev 10:1, Lev 16:12, Lev 16:13; Isa 6:6, Isa 6:7; Rom 5:9, Rom 5:10; Heb 7:25-27, Heb 9:25, Heb 9:26; Rev 8:3-5 and put: Psa 141:2; Mal 1:11 an atonement: Exo 30:7-10; Lev 16:11-16; Jo1 2:1, Jo1 2:2 there is wrath: Num 1:53, Num 8:19, Num 11:33, Num 18:5; Lev 10:6; Ch1 27:24; Psa 106:29 the plague is begun: God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not "the people of the Lord," and that God, not…”