Numbers 16:37 (BSB)

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the flames and to scatter the coals far away, because the censers are holy.

From Numbers 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 16:37

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 16:37: 37. Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron. Since there is no manifestation of God’s wrath so conspicuous as not to be forgotten too often by man’s stupidity, God was willing to anticipate this evil, and set up a monument for posterity, lest the recollection of this memorable judgment should ever be obscured.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 16:35-40: We must now look back to the door of the tabernacle, where we left the pretenders to the priesthood with their censers in their hands ready to offer incense; and here we find, I. Vengeance taken on them, Num 16:35.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 16:37: Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest,.... His eldest son, that was to succeed him as high priest, and who perhaps was upon the spot to see the issue of things; and who, rather than Aaron, is bid to do what follows, partly because Aaron was now officiating, burning incense, and that he might not be defiled with the dead bodies; and partly...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 16:37: Speak unto Eleazar--He was selected lest the high priest might contract defilement from going among the dead carcasses.