1 Chronicles 15:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

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  • 2 Chr 35:6 : 6 And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.
  • Exod 19:14-15 : 14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed. 15 And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.
  • 2 Chr 30:15 : 15 Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord.
  • Ezek 48:11 : 11 For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,
  • John 17:17 : 17 Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him. 2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
  • Rev 5:9-9 : 9 And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation, 10 And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.
  • 1 Chr 9:34 : 34 These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.
  • 1 Chr 15:1 : 1 And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.
  • 1 Chr 15:3 : 3 And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.
  • 1 Chr 15:14 : 14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
  • 1 Chr 24:31 : 31 Selection was made of these in the same way as of their brothers the sons of Aaron, David the king being present, with Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites; the families of the chief in the same way as those of his younger brother.
  • 2 Chr 5:11 : 11 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;
  • 2 Chr 29:4-5 : 4 And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side, 5 And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 15:13-15
    3 verses
    87%

    13 For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.

    14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

    15 And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, lifting it by its rods, as the Lord had said to Moses.

  • 1 Chr 15:1-4
    4 verses
    82%

    1 And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.

    2 Then David said, The ark of God may not be moved by any but the Levites, for they have been marked out by God to take the ark of God, and to do his work for ever.

    3 And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.

    4 And David got together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites;

  • 1 Chr 15:11
    80%

    11 And David sent for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, Uriel, Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel and Amminadab,

  • 2 Chr 29:5
    78%

    5 And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.

  • 2 Chr 35:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3 And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,

    4 And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;

    5 And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites.

  • 2 Chr 5:2
    78%

    2 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, all the chiefs of the tribes and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to Jerusalem and take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

  • 1 Sam 7:1
    77%

    1 So the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, and they made his son Eleazar holy and put the ark in his care.

  • 2 Chr 5:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 All the responsible men of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

    5 They took up the ark and the Tent of meeting and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests, the Levites, took up.

  • 1 Chr 15:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    25 So David, and the responsible men of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went with joy to get the ark of the agreement of the Lord out of the house of Obed-edom.

    26 And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, they made an offering of seven oxen and seven sheep.

    27 And David was clothed with a robe of fair linen, as were all the Levites who took up the ark, and those who made melody, and Chenaniah the master of those who made melody; and David had on a linen ephod;

  • 1 Kgs 8:1
    76%

    1 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
    75%

    19 Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

  • Josh 3:3
    75%

    3 Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;

  • 1 Chr 13:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

    6 And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to get up from there the ark of God, over which the holy Name is named, the name of the Lord whose place is between the winged ones.

  • 1 Kgs 8:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

    4 They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.

  • 2 Sam 6:2
    75%

    2 And David, and all the people who were with him, went to Baal of Judah to get the ark of God, over which the holy name is named, the name of the Lord of armies, whose place is between the winged ones.

  • 1 Chr 16:4
    75%

    4 And he put some of the Levites before the ark of the Lord as servants, to keep the acts of the Lord in memory, and to give worship and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel:

  • 2 Chr 29:15
    75%

    15 And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.

  • 2 Chr 1:4
    75%

    4 But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 13:2
    75%

    2 And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;

  • 2 Sam 15:29
    74%

    29 So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and did not go away from there.

  • Num 16:10
    74%

    10 Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

  • Num 18:2
    74%

    2 Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

  • Num 8:9
    74%

    9 And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent of meeting, and let all the children of Israel come together:

  • 1 Chr 13:12
    73%

    12 And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?

  • 1 Chr 16:1
    73%

    1 Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the tent which David had put up for it; and they made offerings, burned offerings and peace-offerings before God.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    73%

    11 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

  • Num 3:32
    73%

    32 Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place.

  • Ezra 8:29
    73%

    29 Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    73%

    9 And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • Deut 31:25
    73%

    25 Moses said to the Levites who were responsible for taking up the ark of the Lord's agreement,

  • 2 Sam 6:17
    73%

    17 And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 29:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.

    12 Then the Levites took their places; Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel, the son of Azariah, among the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish, the son of Abdi, and Azariah, the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah, the son of Zimmah, and Eden, the son of Joah;

  • Num 3:6
    72%

    6 Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers,

  • Num 8:15
    72%

    15 After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.

  • Num 18:6
    72%

    6 Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

  • 2 Chr 5:7
    72%

    7 And the priests took the ark of the Lord's agreement and put it in its place, in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.