Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Bible References
Ye ministers
1 Corinthians 9:13
You know, do you not, that those who minister in the temple, and those who serve at the altar, get their portion of the sacrifices?
Hebrews 7:13
He who is thus described belonged to another tribe, not one member of which has ever served at the altar.
1 Corinthians 4:1
Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.
2 Corinthians 3:6
It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.