Thematic Bible: Religious priests
Thematic Bible
Leaders » Religious priests » Should be holy
You and Your powerful ark.
May Your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation,
and may Your godly people rejoice in goodness.
They are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they present the fire offerings to Yahweh, the food of their God, and they must be holy.
Verse Concepts
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.
Do not touch anything unclean;
go out from her, purify yourselves,
you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
Even the priests who come near the Lord must purify themselves or the Lord will break out in anger against them.”
So Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when He said:
I will show My holiness
to those who are near Me,
and I will reveal My glory
before all the people.”
But Aaron remained silent. Verse Concepts
to those who are near Me,
and I will reveal My glory
before all the people.”
But Aaron remained silent. Verse Concepts
They must keep My instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am Yahweh who sets them apart.
Verse Concepts
Leaders » Religious priests » General references to
Then he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.
Verse Concepts
Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine; he was a priest to God Most High.
Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord.
Verse Concepts
The priests went to the entrance of the Lord’s temple to cleanse it. They took all the unclean things they found in the Lord’s sanctuary to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. Then the Levites received them and took them outside to the Kidron Valley.
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Verse Concepts
The priests and Levites from all their regions throughout Israel took their stand with Rehoboam,
Leaders » Religious priests » Laws in regard to
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations.
Verse Concepts
Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may also serve Me as priests. Their anointing will serve to inaugurate a permanent priesthood for them throughout their generations.”
Be advised that tribute, duty, and land tax must not be imposed on any priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
Verse Concepts
The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
Verse Concepts
“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,
Verse Concepts
The Lord said to Moses: “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a dead person among his relatives,
Verse Concepts