Priest

Melchizedek

• Genesis 14:18

  And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

• Hebrews 5:6

  As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

• Hebrews 5:10

  Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

• Hebrews 5:11

  Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

• Hebrews 6:20

  Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

• Hebrews 7:1–21

  For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. …

Jethro

• Exodus 2:16

  Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

Priests in Israel before the giving of the law

• Exodus 19:22

  And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

• Exodus 19:24

  And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

Called "angel,"

• Ecclesiastes 5:6

  Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Hereditary, descent of office

• Exodus 27:21

  In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

• Exodus 28:43

  And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.

• Exodus 29:9

  And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Consecration of

• Exodus 29:1–9

  And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. …

• Exodus 29:19–35

  And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. …

• Exodus 40:12–16

  And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: …

• Leviticus 6:20–23

  This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night. In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD. And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt. …

• Leviticus 8:6–35

  And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim. …

• Hebrews 7:21

  (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

Is holy

• Leviticus 21:6

  They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

• Leviticus 21:7

  They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

• Leviticus 22:9

  They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

• Leviticus 22:16

  Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

Ablutions of

• Exodus 40:30–32

  And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal. And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat: When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 16:24

  And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.

Must be without blemish

• Leviticus 21:17–23

  Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, …

Vestments of

• Exodus 28:2–43

  And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. …

• Exodus 39:1–29

  And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses. And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work. …

• Leviticus 6:10

  And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

• Leviticus 6:11

  And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.

• Leviticus 8:13

  And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.

• Ezekiel 44:17–19

  And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

Don vestments in the temple area

• Ezekiel 42:14

  When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.

• Ezekiel 44:19

  And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

Atonement for

• Leviticus 16:6

  And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

• Leviticus 16:24

  And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.

• Ezekiel 44:27

  And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.

Defilement and purification of

• Ezekiel 44:25

  And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

• Ezekiel 44:26

  And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Marriage of

• Leviticus 21:7–15

  They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God. Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. …

• Ezekiel 44:22

  Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

Chambers for, in the temple area

• Ezekiel 40:45

  And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.

• Ezekiel 40:46

  And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.

Exempt from tax

• Ezra 7:24

  Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.

Armed and organized for war at the time of the disaffection toward Saul

• 1 Chronicles 12:27

  And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;

• 1 Chronicles 12:28

  And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.

Beard and hair of

• Ezekiel 44:20

  Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

Twenty-four divisions (shifts) of

• 1 Chronicles 24:1–19

  Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service. …

• 1 Chronicles 28:13

  Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.

• 1 Chronicles 28:21

  And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.

• 2 Chronicles 8:14

  And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

• 2 Chronicles 31:2

  And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

• 2 Chronicles 35:4

  And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

• 2 Chronicles 35:5

  And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

• Ezra 2:36–39

  The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three. The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two. The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven. …

• Nehemiah 13:30

  Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

Chosen by lot

• Luke 1:8

  And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,

• Luke 1:9

  According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

• Luke 1:23

  And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.

Usurpations of office of

• Numbers 3:10

  And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

• Numbers 18:7

  Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

• 2 Chronicles 26:18

  And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.

Numbers 16

Priests who were not from the sons of Levi were appointed by Jeroboam

• 1 Kings 12:31

  And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

• 1 Kings 13:33

  After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

To offer sacrifices

• Leviticus 1:4–17

  And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces. …

• Leviticus 2:2

  And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:

• Leviticus 2:16

  And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

• Leviticus 3:5

  And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

• Leviticus 3:11

  And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.

• Leviticus 3:13

  And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

• Leviticus 3:16

  And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.

• Leviticus 4:5–12

  And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation: And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary. And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. …

• Leviticus 4:17

  And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.

• Leviticus 4:25

  And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.

• Leviticus 4:26

  And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

• Leviticus 4:30–35

  And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar. And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him. And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish. …

• 1 Chronicles 16:40

  To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;

• 2 Chronicles 13:11

  And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

• 2 Chronicles 29:34

  But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

• 2 Chronicles 35:11–14

  And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them. And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen. And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people. …

• Ezra 6:20

  For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

• Hebrews 10:11

  And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

To offer the firstfruits

• Leviticus 23:10

  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

• Leviticus 23:11

  And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

• Deuteronomy 26:3

  And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.

• Deuteronomy 26:4

  And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

Pronounce benedictions

• Numbers 6:22–27

  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: …

• Deuteronomy 21:5

  And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:

• 2 Chronicles 30:27

  Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.

Teach the law

• Leviticus 10:11

  And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.

• Deuteronomy 24:8

  Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

• Deuteronomy 27:14

  And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

• Deuteronomy 31:9–13

  And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. …

• Deuteronomy 33:10

  They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

• Jeremiah 2:8

  The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

• Malachi 2:7

  For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

Light the lamps in the tabernacle

• Exodus 27:20

  And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

• Exodus 27:21

  In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 13:11

  And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

• Leviticus 24:3

  Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.

• Leviticus 24:4

  He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.

Keep the sacred fire always burning

• Leviticus 6:12

  And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.

• Leviticus 6:13

  The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.

To furnish a quota of wood for the sanctuary

• Nehemiah 10:34

  And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

Responsible for the sanctuary

• Numbers 4:5–15

  And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: …

• Numbers 18:1

  And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

• Numbers 18:5

  And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

• Numbers 18:7

  Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

To act as scribes

• Ezra 7:1–6

  Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, …

• Nehemiah 8:9

  And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Be present at and supervise the tithing

• Nehemiah 10:38

  And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

Sound the trumpet in summoning assemblies and in battle

• Numbers 10:2–10

  Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. …

• Numbers 31:6

  And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

• 2 Chronicles 13:12

  And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

Joshua 6

Examine lepers

Purify the unclean

• Leviticus 15:31

  Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

Valuate things devoted

• Leviticus 27:8

  But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

• Leviticus 27:12

  And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.

Officiate in the Holy Place

• Hebrews 9:6

  Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

Chiefs of Levites

• Numbers 3:9

  And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 3:32

  And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

• Numbers 4:19

  But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:

• Numbers 4:28

  This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

• Numbers 4:33

  This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

• 1 Chronicles 9:20

  And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him.

To act as magistrates

• Numbers 5:14–31

  And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: …

• Deuteronomy 17:8–13

  If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: …

• Deuteronomy 19:17

  Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

• Deuteronomy 21:5

  And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:

• 2 Chronicles 19:8

  Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.

• Ezekiel 44:23

  And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

• Ezekiel 44:24

  And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

To encourage the army on the eve of battle

• Deuteronomy 20:2–4

  And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Carry the ark of the covenant

Through the Jordan River

• Joshua 4:15–18

  And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. …

Joshua 3

In battle

• 1 Samuel 4:3–5

  And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies. So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

No part of the land of Canaan allowed to

• Numbers 18:20

  And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 10:9

  Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

• Deuteronomy 14:27

  And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

• Deuteronomy 18:1

  The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.

• Deuteronomy 18:2

  Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

• Joshua 13:14

  Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.

• Joshua 13:33

  But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.

• Joshua 14:3

  For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

• Joshua 18:7

  But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

• Ezekiel 44:28

  And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

Provided with cities and suburbs

• Leviticus 25:32–34

  Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

• Numbers 35:2–8

  Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. …

• Joshua 21:1–4

  Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel; And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle. And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs. …

• Joshua 21:13–19

  Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs, And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs, And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs, …

• Joshua 21:41

  All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

• Joshua 21:42

  These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.

• 1 Chronicles 6:57–60

  And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs, And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs, And Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs: …

• Nehemiah 11:11

  Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.

• Nehemiah 11:20

  And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.

• Ezekiel 45:1–6

  Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. …

• Ezekiel 48:8–20

  And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth. And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof. …

Own lands sanctified to the Lord

• Leviticus 27:21

  But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

Tithes of the tithes

• Numbers 18:8–18

  And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. …

• Numbers 18:26–32

  Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest. …

• Nehemiah 10:38

  And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

Part of the plunder of war, including captives

• Numbers 31:25–29

  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: …

Firstfruits

• Leviticus 23:20

  And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

• Leviticus 24:9

  And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

• Numbers 18:12

  All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.

• Numbers 18:13

  And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

• Numbers 18:17

  But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

• Numbers 18:18

  And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.

• Deuteronomy 18:3–5

  And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

• Nehemiah 10:36

  Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:

Redemption money

• Leviticus 27:23

  Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.

Of the firstborn

• Numbers 3:46–51

  And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites; Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:) And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. …

• Numbers 18:15

  Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

• Numbers 18:16

  And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

Things devoted

• Leviticus 27:21

  But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

• Numbers 5:9

  And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

• Numbers 5:10

  And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

• Numbers 18:14

  Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

Fines

• Leviticus 5:16

  And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

• Leviticus 22:14

  And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.

• Numbers 5:8

  But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.

Trespass money and other trepass offerings

• Leviticus 5:15

  If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

• Leviticus 5:18

  And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.

• Numbers 18:9

  This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.

• 2 Kings 12:16

  The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.

The shewbread

• Exodus 25:30

  And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

• Leviticus 24:5–9

  And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD. …

• 2 Chronicles 2:4

  Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 13:11

  And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

• Nehemiah 10:33

  For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

• Matthew 12:4

  How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

• Hebrews 9:2

  For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

Portions of sacrifices and offerings

• Exodus 29:27–34

  And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD. And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them. …

• Leviticus 2:2

  And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:

• Leviticus 2:3

  And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

• Leviticus 2:9

  And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

• Leviticus 2:10

  And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

• Leviticus 5:12

  Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:13

  And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.

• Leviticus 5:16

  And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

• Leviticus 6:15–18

  And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD. And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it. It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering. …

• Leviticus 6:26

  The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

• Leviticus 7:6–10

  Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy. As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it. And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered. …

• Leviticus 7:31–34

  And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. …

• Leviticus 10:12–14

  And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy: And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded. And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

• Leviticus 14:12

  And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:

Leviticus 14:13, Numbers 6:19, Numbers 6:20, Numbers 18:8–19, Deuteronomy 18:3–5, 1 Samuel 2:13, 1 Samuel 2:14, Ezekiel 44:28–31, Ezekiel 45:1–4, 1 Corinthians 9:13

Regulations by Hezekiah concerning benefits to the priests

2 Chronicles 31:4–19

Portion of land allotted to, in redistribution in Ezekiel' s vision

Ezekiel 48:8–14

For the sustenance of their families

Leviticus 22:11–13, Numbers 18:11, Numbers 18:19

The title appears after the institution of the office

Leviticus 21:10–15, Numbers 3:32

For qualifications, consecration, etc

Vestments of

Exodus 28:2–43, Exodus 39:1–31, Leviticus 8:7–9

Respect due to

Acts 23:5

Duties of

Had charge of the sanctuary and altar

Numbers 18:2, Numbers 18:5, Numbers 18:7

To offer sacrifices

Hebrews 5:1, Hebrews 8:3

To designate subordinate priests for duty

Numbers 4:19, 1 Samuel 2:36

To officiate in consecrations of Levites

Numbers 8:11–21

To have charge of the treasury

2 Kings 12:10, 2 Kings 22:4, 2 Chronicles 24:6–14, 2 Chronicles 34:9

To light the lamps of the tabernacle

Exodus 27:20, Exodus 27:21, Exodus 30:8, Leviticus 24:3, Leviticus 24:4, Numbers 8:3

To burn incense

Exodus 30:7, Exodus 30:8, 1 Samuel 2:28, 1 Chronicles 23:13

To place shewbread on the table every Sabbath

Leviticus 24:8

To offer for his own sins of ignorance

Leviticus 4:3–12

On the Day of Atonement

Exodus 30:10, Leviticus 16, Hebrews 5:3, Hebrews 9:7, Hebrews 9:22, Hebrews 9:23

Judicial

Numbers 5:15, Deuteronomy 17:8–13, 1 Samuel 4:18, Hosea 4:4, Matthew 26:3, Matthew 26:50, Matthew 26:57, Matthew 26:62, Acts 5:21–28, Acts 23:1–5

To count the people

Numbers 1:3

Officiate at the choice of a ruler

Numbers 27:18, Numbers 27:19, Numbers 27:21

Distribute the plunder of war

Numbers 31:26–29

Benefits of

A second priest, under the high priest

Numbers 3:32, Numbers 4:16, Numbers 31:6, 1 Chronicles 9:20, 2 Samuel 15:24, 2 Kings 25:18, Luke 3:2

Loyal to Rehoboam at the time of the revolt of the ten tribes

2 Chronicles 11:13

Zeal of, in purging the temple

2 Chronicles 29:4–17

Wickedness of

2 Chronicles 36:14

Taken with the captivity to Babylon

Jeremiah 29:1

Return from the captivity

Ezra 1:5, Ezra 2:36–39, Ezra 2:61, Ezra 2:70, Ezra 3:8, Ezra 7:7, Ezra 8:24–30, Nehemiah 7:39–42, Nehemiah 7:63–73, Nehemiah 10:1–8, Nehemiah 12:1–7

Polluted by marrying idolatrous wives

Ezra 9:1, Ezra 9:2, Ezra 10:5, Ezra 10:18, Ezra 10:19, Nehemiah 10:28

Restore the altar, and offer sacrifices

Ezra 3:1–7

Supervise the building of the new temple

Ezra 3:8–13

Inquire of John the Baptist to see if he might be the Messiah

John 1:19

Conspire to destroy Jesus

Matthew 26:3–5, Matthew 26:14, Matthew 26:15, Matthew 26:47, Matthew 26:51, Mark 14:10, Mark 14:11, Mark 14:43–47, Mark 14:53–66, Mark 15:1, Luke 22:2–6, Luke 22:50, Luke 22:54, Luke 22:66–71, Luke 23:1, Luke 23:2, John 11:47, John 19:15, John 19:16, John 19:18

Put on trial and condemn Jesus

Matthew 26:57–68, Matthew 27:1, Matthew 27:2, Mark 14:53–65, Luke 22:54–71, Luke 23:13–24, John 18:15–32

Incite the people to ask that Barabbas be released and Jesus be destroyed

Matthew 27:20, Mark 15:11, Luke 23:18

Persecute the disciples

Acts 22:5

Reprove and threaten Peter and John

Acts 4:6–21, Acts 5:17–41

Put on trial, condemn, and stone Stephen

Acts 6:12–15, Acts 7

Paul brought before

Acts 22:30, Acts 23:1–5

Corrupt

Jeremiah 23:11, Jeremiah 23:12, Ezekiel 22:26, Luke 10:31

Instances of

Eli' s sons

1 Samuel 2:12–17, 1 Samuel 2:22

Of the captivity

Ezra 9:1, Ezra 9:2, Ezra 10:18–22, Nehemiah 13:4–9, Nehemiah 13:13, Nehemiah 13:28, Nehemiah 13:29

Zealous

1 Chronicles 9:10–13

Priestly office performed by prophets

1 Samuel 16:5