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.
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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.
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Numbers 7:5
“Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”
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Numbers 7:7
He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service.
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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.
1 Chronicles 9:18
who previously served in the king’s gate eastward. They were the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi.
2 Chronicles 30:6
So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
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 30:22
Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
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.
2 Chronicles 35:3
He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 35:4
Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
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 35:11
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.
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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.
1 Chronicles 23:31
and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;
1 Chronicles 23:32
and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers for the service of Yahweh’s house.
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Deuteronomy 18:6
If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,
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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.
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1 Samuel 18:13
Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
1 Samuel 18:14
David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.
1 Samuel 18:15
When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
1 Samuel 18:16
But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
1 Kings 3:7
Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
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1 Chronicles 6:31
These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house after the ark came to rest there.
1 Chronicles 6:32
They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting until Solomon had built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed the duties of their office according to their order.
1 Chronicles 6:33
These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
1 Chronicles 9:33
These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service, for they were employed in their work day and night.
1 Chronicles 16:4
He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
1 Chronicles 16:5
Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
1 Chronicles 16:6
with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Chronicles 16:41
and with them Heman and Jeduthun and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;
1 Chronicles 25:1
Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:
1 Chronicles 25:2
of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king.
1 Chronicles 25:3
Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp.
2 Chronicles 29:24
Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:26
The Levites stood with David’s instruments, and the priests with the trumpets.
Nehemiah 11:17
and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Psalms 134:2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
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1 Chronicles 22:19
Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”
2 Chronicles 29:5
and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.
2 Chronicles 29:6
For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.
2 Chronicles 29:7
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:8
Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
2 Chronicles 29:9
For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
2 Chronicles 35:2
He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of Yahweh’s house.
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1 Chronicles 24:2
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
1 Chronicles 24:3
David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
1 Chronicles 24:4
There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses, eight.
1 Chronicles 24:5
Thus they were divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24:6
Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 24:7
Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
1 Chronicles 24:8
the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
1 Chronicles 24:9
the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
1 Chronicles 24:10
the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
1 Chronicles 24:11
the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
1 Chronicles 24:12
the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
1 Chronicles 24:13
the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
1 Chronicles 24:14
the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
1 Chronicles 24:15
the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
1 Chronicles 24:16
the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
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1 Chronicles 24:17
the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
1 Chronicles 24:18
the twenty-third to Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
2 Chronicles 5:11
When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
2 Chronicles 23:4
This is the thing that you must do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds.
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1 Chronicles 24:26
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.
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2 Chronicles 20:27
Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
2 Chronicles 20:28
They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets to Yahweh’s house.
Psalms 9:14
that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
Psalms 42:4
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
Psalms 95:2
Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
Psalms 100:2
Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
Psalms 100:4
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
Isaiah 60:18
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
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Psalms 69:25
Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
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2 Chronicles 13:14
When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles 31:19
Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the pasture lands of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name to give portions to all the males among the priests and to all who were listed by genealogy among the Levites.
Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psalms 134:3
May Yahweh bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.
Psalms 135:1
Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh’s name! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
Psalms 135:2
you who stand in Yahweh’s house, in the courts of our God’s house.
Psalms 135:3
Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
Jeremiah 33:11
the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.
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Psalms 137:2
On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.
Psalms 137:3
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
Psalms 137:4
How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?
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Revelation 5:8
Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 5:9
They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
Revelation 5:10
and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.”
Revelation 5:11
I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands,
Revelation 5:12
saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
Revelation 5:13
I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”
Revelation 5:14
The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the elders fell down and worshiped.
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