2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
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2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
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Genesis 20:7
Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
Genesis 47:7
Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:10
Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Deuteronomy 21:5
The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.
1 Chronicles 23:13
The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name forever.
2 Chronicles 29:29
When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
Luke 24:50
He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.
Luke 24:51
While he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.
Acts 3:26
God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
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Exodus 3:5
He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”
1 Kings 8:28
Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;
1 Kings 8:29
that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
1 Kings 9:3
Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
2 Chronicles 6:2
But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
Psalms 26:8
Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
Psalms 58:5
which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
Psalms 89:7
a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
Psalms 132:14
“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.
Jeremiah 17:12
A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
Jonah 2:7
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
Habakkuk 2:20
But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
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Leviticus 9:23
Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the people.
Nehemiah 11:2
The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
Psalms 19:11
Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
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Numbers 8:15
“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
Numbers 8:22
After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
2 Chronicles 30:15
Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 30:16
They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.
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 31:2
Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of Yahweh’s camp.
2 Chronicles 35:8
His princes gave a free will offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.
2 Chronicles 35:9
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle.
2 Chronicles 35:10
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.
2 Chronicles 35:11
They killed the Passover lambs, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from their hands, and the Levites skinned them.
2 Chronicles 35:12
They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.
2 Chronicles 35:13
They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.
2 Chronicles 35:14
Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
2 Chronicles 35:15
The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
2 Chronicles 35:18
There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept—with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Deuteronomy 12:7
There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12:12
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:14
You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
Deuteronomy 26:10
Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 26:11
You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.
Deuteronomy 27:7
You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
Psalms 100:1
Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
Psalms 100:2
Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
Isaiah 12:3
Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
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Judges 10:16
They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
1 Samuel 9:16
“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”
Psalms 102:1
Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
Psalms 119:145
I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.
Psalms 119:169
Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.
Lamentations 3:8
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:44
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
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1 Samuel 5:12
The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
2 Chronicles 32:20
Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
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1 Chronicles 1:10
Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah, which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him.
2 Chronicles 31:10
Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”
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Deuteronomy 31:21
It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”
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 36:15
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;
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Job 37:18
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
Job 38:37
Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
Psalms 33:13
Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
Psalms 57:11
Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.
Psalms 80:14
Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
Psalms 90:1
Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
Habakkuk 3:11
The sun and moon stood still in the sky at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
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Isaiah 9:16
For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
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Isaiah 18:6
They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.
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Isaiah 26:15
You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Habakkuk 3:18
yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
Philippians 4:4
Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
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Jeremiah 27:18
But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.
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.”
Joel 1:13
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.
Joel 1:14
Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
Zechariah 3:1
He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
Zechariah 3:2
Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Zechariah 3:4
He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”
Malachi 1:9
“Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Hebrews 7:27
who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
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Zechariah 3:5
I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.” So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.
John 9:31
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him.
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2 Chronicles 6:21
Listen to the petitions of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
2 Chronicles 6:39
then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
Job 22:12
“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job 22:13
You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Job 22:14
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
Psalms 113:5
Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
Psalms 113:6
who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Matthew 6:9
Pray like this: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
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John 1:19
This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
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Psalms 3:4
I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 134:3
May Yahweh bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.
Acts 7:48
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
Acts 7:49
‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?
Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
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