Numbers 16:38

38 As for the censers of wthese men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. xThus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.

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Proverbs 20:2
The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

Habakkuk 2:10
You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.

1 Kings 2:23
Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, “God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!

Numbers 17:10
And the LORD said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.”

Numbers 26:10
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a warning.


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