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
Young
Bible References
Cast out
2 Chronicles 11:14
The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord's priests.
Made you priests
1 Kings 12:31
He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.
1 Kings 13:33
After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.
Young
Exodus 29:1
"Now this is what you are to do for them to consecrate them so that they may minister as my priests. Take a young bull and two rams without blemish;
Leviticus 8:2
"Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, the sin offering bull, 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; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.
2 Kings 19:18
They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!
Hosea 8:6
That idol was made by a workman -- it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.
Acts 19:26
And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.
Galatians 4:8
Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.