SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:38
los incensarios de estos pecadores contra sus almas; y harán de ellos planchas extendidas para cubrir el altar; por cuanto ofrecieron con ellos delante del SEÑOR, son santificados; y serán por señal a los hijos de Israel.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 38. The censers of these sinners against their own souls , etc.] Who by burning incense in them sinned, and by sinning hurt and ruined their souls: let them make them broad plates [for] a covering of the altar ; the altar of burnt offering, which, though it had a covering of brass, another made of these were to be over it, for the further security of it, being of from the fire continually burning on it; these censers were to be beaten into broad plates, by the workmen who understood how to do it: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed ; they offered them in his presence, they burned incense in them, and to him, though it was not their business, but the business of the priests; yet these being done, and by his orders, for an open trial who were his priests and who not, they were not to be put to common use: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel ; a memorial sign, a sign bringing this affair to remembrance, as it is explained in ( Numbers 16:40); this was a sign to the priests, that they only were to offer every kind of offerings, and to the Levites, who attended the priests at the altar continually, and so had every day a sight of it and of those plates upon it, which would remind them of this fact, and teach them not to usurp the priest’s office; and to all the children of Israel, to learn from hence that none were to burn incense but the priests of the Lord, for doing which Uzziah, though a king, was punished, ( 2 Chronicles 26:18-23).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 35-40 - A fire went out from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fift men that offered incense, while Aaron, who stood with them, wa preserved alive. God is jealous of the honour of his own institutions and will not have them invaded. The sacrifice of the wicked is a abomination to the Lord. The censers are devoted, and, as all devote things, must be made serviceable to the glory of God. This covering of the altar would remind the children of Israel of this event, tha others might hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously. They brough destruction on themselves both in body and soul. Thus all who break the law and neglect the gospel choose and love death.
Original Hebrew
את 853 מחתות 4289 החטאים 2400 האלה 428 בנפשׁתם 5315 ועשׂו 6213 אתם 853 רקעי 7555 פחים 6341 צפוי 6826 למזבח 4196 כי 3588 הקריבם 7126 לפני 6440 יהוה 3068 ויקדשׁו 6942 ויהיו 1961 לאות 226 לבני 1121 ישׂראל׃ 3478
