Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
Office was to wait, etc
For the service
General references
Bible References
Office was to wait, etc
1 Chronicles 18:17
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites and the eldest sons of David waited at the king's hand.
For the service
1 Chronicles 23:4
Of which twenty four thousand were set to further the work of the house of the LORD. And six thousand were officers and judges.
1 Chronicles 28:13
and of the companies of the priests and Levites that waited by course, and of all workmanship, that should serve for the house of the LORD, and for all vessels that should serve in the house of the LORD.
Numbers 3:6
"Bring the tribe of Levi, and set them before Aaron the priest, and let them serve him and wait upon him -
1 Kings 6:5
And under the walls of the house he made galleries round about, both round about the temple and also the quyre. And so made sides round about.
2 Chronicles 31:11
And Hezekiah bade dress up the store houses about the house of the LORD. And so they did,
Ezra 8:29
Watch ye therefore and keep it, till ye weigh it down before the chief priests and Levites, and ancient fathers of Israel at Jerusalem in the chests of the house of the LORD."
Nehemiah 13:4
And before this had the Priest Eliashib delivered the chest of the house of our God unto his kinsman Tobiah:
Jeremiah 35:4
and brought them to the house of the LORD, into the closet of the children of Hanan the son of Igdaliah the man of God: which was by the closet of the princes, that is above the closet of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, which is the chief of the treasury.
Ezekiel 41:6
and one stood hard upon another, whereof there were thirty three. And there stood posts beneath by the walls round about the house, to bear them up: but in the wall of the house they were not fastened.
Ezekiel 42:3
over against the twenty cubits of the innermore court, and against the paved work that was in the fore court. Beside all these three, there stood pillars, one over against another:
Purifying
1 Chronicles 9:28
And certain of them had the rule of the ministering vessels and brought them in and out by tale.
2 Chronicles 29:5
and said unto them, "Hear me ye Levites: purify yourselves and hallow the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and bring out the filthiness out of the holy place.
2 Chronicles 35:3
And he said to the Levites that taught throughout all Israel and were sanctified unto the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; ye need not to bear it upon your shoulders. Wherefore now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
General references
Ezekiel 40:7
between the chambers were five cubits. The post of the door within the porch, was one measuring rod.
Ezekiel 44:14
Should I use them to be porters of the house, and to all the service that is done therein?