Deuteronomy 18:2

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And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

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  • Gen 15:1 : 1 After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.
  • Ps 16:5 : 5 The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.
  • Ps 73:24-26 : 24 Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour. 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth. 26 My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
  • Ps 119:57 : 57 <CHETH> The Lord is my heritage: I have said that I would be ruled by your words.
  • Isa 61:6 : 6 But you will be named the priests of the Lord, the servants of our God: you will have the wealth of the nations for your food, and you will be clothed with their glory.
  • Lam 3:24 : 24 I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
  • Rev 1:5-6 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood; 6 And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 18:1
    90%

    1 The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

  • Deut 10:9
    87%

    9 For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

  • Num 18:20-25
    6 verses
    85%

    20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.

    21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

    22 In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

    23 But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

    24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

    25 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Josh 13:33
    85%

    33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the Lord, the God of Israel, is their heritage, as he said to them.

  • Josh 13:14
    83%

    14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his heritage, as he said to him.

  • Ezek 44:28-29
    2 verses
    83%

    28 And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

    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.

  • Josh 18:7
    81%

    7 For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.

  • Deut 18:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7 Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord.

    8 His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.

  • Josh 14:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2 Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

    3 For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

    4 Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

  • Num 27:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9 And if he has no daughter, then give his heritage to his brothers.

    10 And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.

    11 And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Num 36:9
    76%

    9 And no property will be handed from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its heritage.

  • Num 36:7
    76%

    7 And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.

  • Mic 2:5
    76%

    5 For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

  • Num 18:6
    76%

    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.

  • Isa 34:17
    75%

    17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • Num 36:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 Now if they get married to any of the sons of other tribes of the children of Israel, then their property will be taken away from the heritage of our fathers, and become part of the heritage of the tribe into which they get married: and their heritage will be taken away from the heritage of our tribe.

    4 And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers.

  • Deut 14:27
    75%

    27 And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

  • Josh 17:4
    74%

    4 And they came before Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and before the chiefs, saying, The Lord gave orders to Moses to give us a heritage among our brothers: so in agreement with the orders of the Lord he gave them a heritage among their father's brothers.

  • Deut 32:9
    74%

    9 For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

  • Num 32:19
    74%

    19 For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.

  • Num 26:55
    73%

    55 But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.

  • Num 8:14
    73%

    14 So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.

  • Ezek 47:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22 And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel.

    23 In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 47:14
    73%

    14 And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.

  • Deut 15:4
    72%

    4 But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

  • Num 35:2
    72%

    2 Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

  • Deut 18:3
    72%

    3 And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.

  • Josh 21:3
    72%

    3 And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

  • Deut 18:5
    72%

    5 For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.

  • Num 33:54
    72%

    54 And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.

  • Num 2:33
    72%

    33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

  • Lev 25:46
    72%

    46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

  • Num 3:12
    72%

    12 See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

  • Deut 14:29
    72%

    29 And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Jer 10:16
    71%

    16 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

  • Ps 135:12
    71%

    12 And gave their land for a heritage, even for a heritage to Israel his people.