Identifier: pictorialbibleco00cobb (find matches)
Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the son of Aaron, to pickup the brass censers of the dead men, to throw away the incense, as a tokenthat he rejected their prayers,—incense having been used to represent thesweet breath of prayer rising to heaven,—and to make of the censers acovering for the altar, by having them beaten out flat and thin. There was,indeed, then a covering of brass on the altar, which, as it was made ofwood, needed that to protect it from the heat of the fire that was continuallyburning on it; but these censers, beaten out and put again upon the brass,would make the altar still more secure from injury, and this covering wouldever serve to remind the Levites how wicked it was for those to dare tobecome priests whom God had not appointed to be so, and what a dreadfulend would be likely to befall them who would dare to burn incense when hehad not ordered them. And now you will be astonished to learn, that after these things—andhow long after, do you think ? why only on the next day—All the congre-
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Numbers. 189 gation of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Yehave killed the people of the Lord. They charged Moses and Aaron withkilling the rebels, when God had done it before their eyes; and they calledthem the people of the Lord, when they had, by their wickedness, cutthemselves off from him. So the glory of the Lord immediately appeared in the cloud over theTabernacle; for God heard all that this sinful people said,—And the Lordspake unto Moses, saying, Get you up from among this congregation that Imay consume them as in a moment: and they fell upon their faces, tohumble themselves, and to pray for the people. It was very kind in Moses and Aaron to pray for people that behaved sobadly to them, and so Christ teaches us to pray for our enemies, for allthose who treat us with spite. But the punishment had begun. The plague had seized them; andMoses, perhaps, having heard the people crying out in great distress, lookedup, and saw them dying in all parts. So he

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