Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Because they have defiled

Bible References

Remember

Nehemiah 6:14
Have remembrance, O my God, of Tobiah and of Sanballat, according to these their doings, - moreover also, of Noadiah the prophetess, and of the rest of the prophets, who would have put me in fear.
Psalm 59:5
Thou, therefore, O Yahweh, God of hosts, God of Israel, Awake, to visit all the nations, Do not show favour to any iniquitous traitors. Selah.
2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith, of much baseness towards me, hath given proof, - the Lord will render unto him according to his works. -

Because they have defiled

Leviticus 21:1
And Yahweh said unto Moses, Say unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, - yea thou shalt say unto them, For a dead person, shall no one make himself unclean among his people:

The covenant

Numbers 16:9
Is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the assembly of Israel, to bring you near unto himself, - to do the laborious work of the habitation of Yahweh, and to stand before the assembly, to wait upon them?
Numbers 25:12
Wherefore say, - Behold me! giving unto him my covenant of peace;
1 Samuel 2:30
Hence, the oracle of Yahweh God of Israel, I, said, that, thy house, and the house of thy father, should go to and fro in my presence, unto times age-abiding: But, now, (is the oracle of Yahweh) - Be it far from me! For, them who honour me, will I honour, but, they who despise me, shall be lightly esteemed.
Malachi 2:4
So shall ye know that I sent unto you this charge, - as being my covenant with Levi, saith Yahweh of hosts.