1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
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1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
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Leviticus 10:2
Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.
Numbers 4:4
“This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, regarding the most holy things.
Numbers 4:19
but do this to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint everyone to his service and to his burden;
Numbers 4:20
but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
1 Samuel 6:19
He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
2 Samuel 6:7
Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.
2 Chronicles 26:18
They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”
1 Corinthians 11:30
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
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Numbers 4:6
put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its poles.
Numbers 4:7
“On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.
Numbers 4:8
They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
Numbers 4:9
“They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand of the light, its lamps, its snuffers, its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
Numbers 4:10
They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.
Numbers 4:11
“On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
Numbers 4:12
“They shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
Numbers 4:13
“They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.
Numbers 4:14
They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
1 Samuel 6:7
“Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
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Numbers 10:17
The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.
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Numbers 10:21
The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.
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Numbers 4:3
from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 8:13
You shall set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.
Numbers 8:14
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers 8:24
“This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
Numbers 8:25
and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
Numbers 8:26
but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”
Numbers 18:1
Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
Numbers 18:2
Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the Tent of the Testimony.
Numbers 18:3
They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you.
Numbers 18:4
They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.
Numbers 18:5
“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.
Numbers 18:7
You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
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Numbers 18:6
Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 18:8
Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.
Isaiah 66:21
Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 33:17
For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.
Jeremiah 33:18
The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”
Jeremiah 33:19
Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 33:20
“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time,
Jeremiah 33:21
then my covenant could also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levitical priests, my ministers.
Jeremiah 33:22
As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”
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Numbers 20:8
“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”
Numbers 20:11
Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
1 Samuel 15:13
Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
1 Samuel 15:14
Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
1 Samuel 15:19
Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”
1 Samuel 15:24
Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
1 Kings 13:21
and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s word, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,
1 Kings 13:22
but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water,” your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’ ”
1 Kings 13:23
After he had eaten bread and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.
1 Kings 13:24
When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
James 1:20
for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
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Numbers 32:38
Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.
1 Chronicles 5:8
and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon;
Jeremiah 48:1
Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste. Kiriathaim is disappointed. It is taken. Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
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Deuteronomy 18:7
then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 23:6
But let no one come into Yahweh’s house except the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow Yahweh’s instructions.
2 Chronicles 29:4
He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,
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1 Samuel 2:30
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
Jeremiah 18:9
At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,
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Joshua 4:9
Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
Joshua 4:10
For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.
Joshua 4:16
“Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan.”
Joshua 4:17
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan!”
Joshua 4:18
When the priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
Joshua 6:4
Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
Joshua 6:12
Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.
1 Samuel 4:3
When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”
1 Samuel 4:4
So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Samuel 4:5
When the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.
1 Samuel 4:11
God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
2 Samuel 15:24
Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up until all the people finished passing out of the city.
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2 Samuel 6:1
David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 Samuel 6:12
King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.
2 Samuel 6:14
David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.
1 Chronicles 13:8
David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psalms 24:8
Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.
Psalms 24:9
Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psalms 24:10
Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of Armies is the King of glory! Selah.
Psalms 68:24
They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
Psalms 68:25
The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, among the ladies playing with tambourines,
Psalms 68:26
“Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”
Psalms 68:27
There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
Psalms 132:6
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar.
Psalms 132:7
“We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.”
Psalms 132:8
Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.
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1 Chronicles 15:4
David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
1 Chronicles 15:5
of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
1 Chronicles 15:6
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
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1 Samuel 7:2
From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.
1 Kings 3:15
Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
1 Chronicles 16:1
They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
1 Chronicles 16:39
and Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1 Chronicles 17:5
for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
1 Chronicles 21:29
For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
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2 Chronicles 2:9
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
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2 Chronicles 5:4
All the elders of Israel came. The Levites took up the ark.
2 Chronicles 5:5
They brought up the ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The Levitical priests brought these up.
2 Chronicles 5:6
King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled to him were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
2 Chronicles 5:7
The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
2 Chronicles 5:8
For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
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2 Chronicles 8:13
even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of booths.
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2 Chronicles 20:17
You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”
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2 Chronicles 23:18
Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.
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2 Chronicles 30:17
For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 30:18
For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone
2 Chronicles 30:19
who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”
2 Chronicles 30:20
Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
1 Corinthians 11:2
Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
1 Corinthians 14:40
Let all things be done decently and in order.
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Ezra 3:10
When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.
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Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
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Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
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