2 Kings 23:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers.

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  • Ezek 44:10-14 : 10 But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them. 11 But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants. 12 Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them. 13 And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done. 14 But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.
  • Ezek 44:29-31 : 29 Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs. 30 And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house. 31 The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.
  • Mal 2:8-9 : 8 But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies. 9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 23:8
    74%

    8And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.

  • 2 Chr 13:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9And 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.

    10But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not been turned away from him; we have priests who do the work of the Lord, even the sons of Aaron and the Levites in their places;

    11By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders given to us by the Lord our God, but you have gone away from him.

  • Lev 21:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;

    23But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    71%

    3But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • Lev 23:6
    71%

    6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.

  • Matt 12:4
    71%

    4How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

  • Luke 6:4
    70%

    4How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • Hos 9:4
    70%

    4They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    70%

    31And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
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    34There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.

  • 1 Sam 21:6
    70%

    6So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.

  • Mal 1:7
    70%

    7You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.

  • Exod 29:2
    70%

    2And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

  • Heb 13:10
    70%

    10We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

  • Exod 29:23
    70%

    23And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    70%

    4But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • Mark 2:26
    69%

    26How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • 2 Chr 11:14
    69%

    14For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;

  • Lev 22:25
    69%

    25And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.

  • 2 Chr 30:3
    69%

    3It was not possible to keep it at that time, because not enough priests had made themselves holy, and the people had not come together in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:20
    69%

    20And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem.

  • Lev 7:6
    69%

    6Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.

  • 1 Chr 9:32
    69%

    32And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath.

  • 2 Kgs 12:16
    69%

    16The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.

  • Lev 6:16
    69%

    16Every meal offering offered for the priest is to be completely burned: nothing of it is to be taken for food.

  • 2 Kgs 23:5
    69%

    5And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    68%

    14And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 23:29
    68%

    29The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    68%

    32So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    68%

    17However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    68%

    6But let no one come into the house of the Lord but only the priests and those of the Levites who have work to do there; they may go in for they are holy; but the rest of the people are to keep the orders of the Lord.

  • Ezek 46:20
    68%

    20And he said to me, This is the place where the offering for error and the sin-offering are to be cooked in water by the priests, and where the meal offering is to be cooked in the oven; so that they may not be taken out into the outer square to make the people holy.

  • Ezek 4:13
    68%

    13And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

  • Lev 22:10
    68%

    10No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

  • Lev 22:15
    68%

    15And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord,

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    68%

    15And more than this, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was making the offering, Give me some of the flesh to be cooked for the priest; he has no taste for meat cooked in water, but would have you give it uncooked.

  • 2 Kgs 23:10
    68%

    10And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

  • Mal 1:12
    68%

    12But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.

  • Exod 13:6
    68%

    6For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
    68%

    5And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

  • Ezek 44:31
    67%

    31The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.

  • Jer 19:13
    67%

    13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    67%

    35But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.

  • Jer 7:17
    67%

    17Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Joel 1:9
    67%

    9The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.