Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
Cast out
Made you priests
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Bible References
Cast out
2 Chronicles 11:14
for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests of Yahweh.
Made you priests
1 Kings 12:31
Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and set up priests from every class of people who were not Levites.
1 Kings 13:33
After all this Jeroboam did not repent of his evil way but again set up priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.
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Exodus 29:1
“This is what you are to do for them to consecrate them to serve Me as priests. Take a young bull and two unblemished rams,
Leviticus 8:2
“Take Aaron, his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
No gods
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your fathers did not fear.
to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your fathers did not fear.
2 Kings 19:18
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
Jeremiah 2:11 Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.
(But they were not gods!
Yet My people have exchanged their
for useless idols.
Hosea 8:6 For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
a craftsman made it,
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
Acts 19:26
You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!
Galatians 4:8
But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.