Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible






Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

This people comes near me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.


But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.


And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver. And they shall offer to LORD offerings in righteousness.

neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to ministe Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says lord LORD, and they shall bear their iniquity. read more.
And they shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committ Yet I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done in it.