'Serve' in the Bible
And you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "[Let] each one go serve his idols [now] and after, if you [are] not listening to me, but {my holy name} you will not profane [any] longer with your gifts and with your idols.
"For on {my holy mountain}, on the mountain of the height of Israel," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "there all of the house of Israel will serve me, all of them, in the land. I will take pleasure in them, and there I will accept your contributions and the best of your portions with all of your holy objects.
Your sail was fine linen with colorful weaving from Egypt {to serve as a banner for you}; blue and purple cloth from the coastlands of Cyprus was your awning.
And the chamber {with its face to the north} [is] for the priests [who are] taking care of the responsibility of the altar. They [are] the descendants of Zadok, the [ones who] approach [from among] the descendants of Levi to Yahweh to serve him."
{When the priests enter}, then they shall not go out from the sanctuary to the outer courtyard; and there they must put their garments in which they serve because they [are] holy. They must put on other garments and [then] they may approach [the area] that [is] for the people.
And you must give to the Levitical priests who [are] from the offspring of Zadok, the [ones] [coming] near me," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "to serve me, a bull, {a calf} as sin offering.
Then they will be in my sanctuary, [those] serving [in] my sanctuary, [as] sentries at the gates of the temple and [as] [those] serving the temple; they will slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they will stand {before them} to serve them,
{because} they used to serve them {before} their idols and they were for the house of Israel [like] a stumbling block of iniquity. Therefore {I swore} concerning them," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "[that] they will bear their iniquity.
And they shall not approach me to serve as priest for me and to come near to all of my holy objects, {to the most holy objects}, and they will bear their disgrace and [the results of] their detestable things they have done.
But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok, who cared for the responsibility of my sanctuary {when the Israelites went astray} from me, they will approach me to serve me, and they will stand {before me} to offer to me fat and blood," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
"They shall come to my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table to serve me, and they will observe my requirement.
{And then} {when they come} to the gates of the inner courtyards, they shall put on their inner linen garments and not wear wool [garments] {when they serve} in the gates of the inner courtyard and {inside} the temple.
and [then] on the day of his coming into the sanctuary to the inner courtyard to serve in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
It [is] a holy portion from the land; it will be for the priests, the servants of the sanctuary {who approach} to serve Yahweh, and it will be for them a place for houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
And [an area] twenty-five thousand [cubits] [in] length and ten thousand [cubits] [in] width will be for the Levites, the servants of the temple. [It will serve] [as] property for them {as cities to dwell in}.
Search Results by Versions
Search Results by Book
- Genesis (8)
- Exodus (35)
- Leviticus (2)
- Numbers (6)
- Deuteronomy (26)
- Joshua (12)
- Judges (3)
- 1 Samuel (8)
- 2 Samuel (2)
- 1 Kings (3)
- 2 Kings (5)
- 1 Chronicles (6)
- 2 Chronicles (8)
- Ezra (1)
- Nehemiah (1)
- Job (3)
- Psalm (7)
- Proverbs (2)
- Isaiah (6)
- Jeremiah (23)
- Ezekiel (15)
- Daniel (8)
- Zephaniah (1)
- Malachi (2)
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Assist (35 instances)
- Attend (94 instances)
- Campaign (11 instances)
- Dish (56 instances)
- Entertain (11 instances)
- Function (10 instances)
- Help (595 instances)
- Process (20 instances)
- Serve (555 instances)
- Service (409 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
Douloo
Gamal
Na`ar
`abad
`abodah
Tsaba'
Shiphchah