Luke 1:9

American Standard Version (1901)

according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

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  • Exod 30:7-8 : 7 And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices: every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it. 8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.
  • 1 Chr 23:13 : 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, for ever, to burn incense before Jehovah, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, for ever.
  • 2 Chr 29:11 : 11 My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah hath chosen you to stand before him, to minister unto him, and that ye should be his ministers, and burn incense.
  • 1 Sam 2:28 : 28 and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up unto mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
  • 1 Chr 6:49 : 49 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of burnt-offering, and upon the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
  • Exod 37:25-29 : 25 And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, foursquare; and two cubits was the height thereof; the horns thereof were of one piece with it. 26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: and he made unto it a crown of gold round about. 27 And he made for it two golden rings under the crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it, for places for staves wherewith to bear it. 28 And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. 29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
  • Num 16:40 : 40 to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, that is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before Jehovah; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as Jehovah spake unto him by Moses.
  • Heb 9:6 : 6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;
  • 2 Chr 26:16 : 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Jehovah his God; for he went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Luke 1:8
    87%

    8Now it came to pass, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,

  • Luke 1:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the hour of incense.

    11And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of altar of incense.

  • Lev 16:12-13
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    73%

    12and he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:

    13and he shall put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:

  • Luke 2:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27And he came in the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do concerning him after the custom of the law,

    28then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

  • Luke 1:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

    6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

  • Luke 1:23
    71%

    23And it came to pass, when the days of his ministration were fulfilled, he departed unto his house.

  • 2 Chr 29:11
    71%

    11My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah hath chosen you to stand before him, to minister unto him, and that ye should be his ministers, and burn incense.

  • Lev 9:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16And he presented the burnt-offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

    17And he presented the meal-offering, and filled his hand therefrom, and burnt it upon the altar, besides the burnt-offering of the morning.

  • Exod 40:27
    70%

    27and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

  • 2 Chr 26:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It pertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto Jehovah, 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 honor from Jehovah God.

    19Then Uzziah was wroth; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy brake forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah, beside the altar of incense.

  • Heb 9:6
    70%

    6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;

  • Exod 30:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices: every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it.

    8And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.

  • Luke 1:67
    69%

    67And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

  • Ezek 8:11
    69%

    11And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.

  • 1 Chr 9:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.

    30And some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the spices.

  • Luke 1:75-76
    2 verses
    69%

    75In holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

    76Yea and thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High: For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways;

  • Neh 10:34
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    34And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law;

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    69%

    11And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Jehovah before Eli the priest.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
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    11And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;

  • Neh 13:5
    69%

    5had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.

  • 1 Chr 6:49
    69%

    49But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of burnt-offering, and upon the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
    68%

    16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Jehovah his God; for he went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

  • Ezek 40:46
    68%

    46and 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, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Jehovah to minister unto him.

  • 2 Chr 31:2
    68%

    2And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Jehovah.

  • Luke 1:15-17
    3 verses
    68%

    15For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

    16And many of the children of Israel shall be turn unto the Lord their God.

    17And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient [to walk] in the wisdom of the just; to make ready for the Lord a people prepared [for him] .

  • Luke 1:59
    67%

    59And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.

  • Luke 4:16
    67%

    16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and he entered, as his custom was, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.

  • Rev 8:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3And another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should add it unto the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

    4And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.

  • Num 16:18
    67%

    18And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

  • Deut 18:7
    67%

    7then he shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before Jehovah.

  • Luke 3:2
    67%

    2in the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

  • Luke 2:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

    23(as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord),

  • 1 Chr 16:40
    67%

    40to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah upon the altar of burnt-offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of Jehovah, which he commanded unto Israel;

  • Luke 1:25
    67%

    25Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon [me], to take away my reproach among men.

  • Num 16:7
    67%

    7and put fire in them, and put incense upon them before Jehovah to-morrow: and it shall be that the man whom Jehovah doth choose, he [shall be] holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

  • Ezra 3:4
    67%

    4And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and [offered] the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

  • Num 7:56
    66%

    56one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;