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<span> [[Exodus]] 6:23 </span> <span> Exodus 28:1 </span> <span> Exodus 24:1 </span> <span> [[Leviticus]] 10:1-22 </span> <span> Leviticus 16:12 </span> <a> [[Priests]] </a>

<p> <translit> a </translit> - <translit> bı̄´hū </translit> ( <span> אביהוּא </span> , <i> <translit> 'ăbhı̄hū </translit> </i> ), "father he is," or "my father he is"): [[Second]] son of Aaron, the high priest ( <span> [[Exodus]] 6:23 </span> ). [[With]] his older brother [[Nadab]] he "died before Yahweh," when the two "offered strange fire" ( <span> [[Leviticus]] 10:1 </span> , <span> Leviticus 10:2 </span> ). It may be inferred from the emphatic prohibition of wine or strong drink, laid upon the priests immediately after this tragedy, that the two brothers were going to their priestly functions in an intoxicated condition ( <span> Leviticus 10:8-11 </span> ). Their death is mentioned three times in subsequent records ( <span> [[Numbers]] 3:4 </span> ; <span> Numbers 26:61 </span> ; <span> 1 [[Chronicles]] 24:2 </span> ). </p>

<p> (Heb. Abihu', <span> אֲבַיהוּץ </span> <span> , </span> lit. <span> father </span> [i.e. <span> worshipper] of Him, </span> sc. <span> God; </span> Sept. <span> ‘Αβιούδ </span> , [[Josephus]] <span> ‘Αβιοῦς </span> , Vulg. <span> Abiu), </span> the second of the sons of [[Aaron]] by [[Elisheba]] ( <span> [[Exodus]] 6:23 </span> ; <span> [[Numbers]] 3:2 </span> ; <span> Numbers 26:60 </span> ; <span> 1 [[Chronicles]] 6:3 </span> ; <span> 1 Chronicles 24:1 </span> ), who, with his brothers Nadab, Eleazar, and Ithamar, was set apart and consecrated for the priesthood ( <span> Exodus 28:1 </span> ). [[With]] his father and elder brother, he accompanied the seventy elders partly up the mount which [[Moses]] ascended to receive the divine communication ( <span> Exodus 24:1 </span> ; <span> Exodus 24:9 </span> ). When, at the first establishment of the ceremonial worship, the victims offered on the great brazen altar were consumed by fire from heaven, it was directed that this fire should always be kept up, and that the daily incense should be burnt in censers filled with it from the great altar (see <span> [[Leviticus]] 6:9 </span> sq.). But one day [[Nadab]] and [[Abihu]] presumed to neglect this regulation, and offered incense in censers filled with "strange" or common fire, B.C. 1657. [[For]] this they were instantly struck dead by lightning, and were taken away and buried in their clothes without the camp ( <span> Leviticus 10:1-11 </span> ; comp. <span> Numbers 3:4 </span> ; <span> Numbers 26:61 </span> ; <span> 1 Chronicles 24:2 </span> ). (See <a> AARON </a> ). There can be no doubt that this severe example had the intended effect of enforcing becoming attention to the most minute observances of the ritual service. [[As]] immediately after the record of this transaction, and in apparent reference to it, comes a prohibition of wine or strong drink to the priests whose turn it might be to enter the tabernacle, it is not unfairly surmised that Nadab and Abihu were intoxicated when they committed this serious error in their ministrations. (See <a> NADAB </a> ). </p>