'Office' in the Bible
within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer.
He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
And just as he interpreted for us, so it happened; he restored me in my office, but he hanged him.”
So you shall come to the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case.
then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.
You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare this day to the Lord my God that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’
“From Ephraim those whose root is in Amalek came down,Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples;From Machir commanders came down,And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of office.
and Johanan became the father of Azariah (it was he who served as the priest in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem),
They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they served in their office according to their order.
All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds were 212. These were enrolled by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their office of trust.
for the four chief gatekeepers who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.
For their office is to assist the sons of Aaron with the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts and in the chambers and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God,
“I will depose you from your office,And I will pull you down from your station.
As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector’s booth; and He *said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.
As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He *said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.
according to the custom of the priestly office, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, “Follow Me.”
“For it is written in the book of Psalms,‘Let his homestead be made desolate,And let no one dwell in it’;and,‘Let another man take his office.’
It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.
And those indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, although these are descended from Abraham.