Ezekiel 8:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume.

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  • Num 16:17 : 17 And let every man take a vessel for burning perfumes, and put sweet spices in them; let every man take his vessel before the Lord, two hundred and fifty vessels; you and Aaron and everyone with his vessel.
  • Num 16:35 : 35 Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.
  • Num 11:16 : 16 And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you.
  • Num 11:25 : 25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with him, and put on the seventy men some of the spirit which was on him: now when the spirit came to rest on them, they were like prophets, but only at that time.
  • Exod 24:1 : 1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.
  • Jer 19:1 : 1 This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;
  • Jer 26:24 : 24 But Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, gave Jeremiah his help, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to be put to death.
  • Jer 29:3 : 3 By the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,) saying,
  • Jer 36:10 : 10 Then Baruch gave a public reading of the words of Jeremiah from the book, in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher square, as one goes in by the new doorway of the Lord's house, in the hearing of all the people.
  • Dan 9:8 : 8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
  • Exod 24:9 : 9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:
  • 2 Kgs 22:3 : 3 Now in the eighteenth year after he became king, Josiah sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying to him,
  • 2 Kgs 22:8 : 8 Then Hilkiah, the chief priest, said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. So Hilkiah gave it to Shaphan;
  • 2 Kgs 22:12 : 12 And he gave orders to Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Achbor, the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,
  • 2 Kgs 22:14 : 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town;) and they had talk with her.
  • 2 Kgs 25:22 : 22 As for the people who were still living in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler over them.
  • 2 Chr 26:16 : 16 But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.
  • 2 Chr 26:19 : 19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.
  • 2 Chr 34:20 : 20 And he gave orders to Hilkiah and to Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Abdon, the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe and Asaiah, the king's servant, saying,
  • Jer 5:5 : 5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
  • Jer 7:9 : 9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

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  • Ezek 8:12
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    12 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.

  • Num 16:17-18
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    17 And let every man take a vessel for burning perfumes, and put sweet spices in them; let every man take his vessel before the Lord, two hundred and fifty vessels; you and Aaron and everyone with his vessel.

    18 So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them, with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

  • Ezek 11:1
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    1 And the wind, lifting me up, took me to the east doorway of the Lord's house, looking to the east: and at the door I saw twenty-five men; and among them I saw Jaazaniah, the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people.

  • Ezek 8:16-17
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    16 And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.

    17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.

  • Ezek 8:9-10
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    9 And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here.

    10 So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living thing which goes flat on the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the images of the children of Israel, were pictured round about on the wall.

  • Lev 16:12-13
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    12 And he is to take a vessel full of burning coal from the altar before the Lord and in his hand some sweet perfume crushed small, and take it inside the veil;

    13 And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him.

  • Rev 8:3-5
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    3 And another angel came and took his place at the altar, having a gold vessel for burning perfume; and there was given to him much perfume, so that he might put it with the prayers of all the saints on the gold altar which was before the high seat.

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

    5 And the angel took the vessel; and he made it full of the fire of the altar, and sent it down on the earth: and there came thunders and voices and flames and a shaking of the earth.

  • 2 Chr 26:17-19
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    17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men;

    18 And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God.

    19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.

  • Exod 24:9
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    9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:

  • Ezek 9:2-3
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    2 And six men came from the way of the higher doorway looking to the north, every man with his axe in his hand: and one man among them was clothed in linen, with a writer's inkpot at his side. And they went in and took their places by the brass altar.

    3 And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the winged ones on which it was resting, to the doorstep of the house. And crying out to the man clothed in linen who had the writer's inkpot at his side,

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
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    11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

  • Ezek 8:1-6
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    1 Now in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in my house and the responsible men of Judah were seated before me, the hand of the Lord came on me there.

    2 And looking, I saw a form like fire; from the middle of his body and down there was fire: and up from the middle of his body a sort of shining, like electrum.

    3 And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; and the wind, lifting me up between the earth and the heaven, took me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way into the inner door facing to the north; where was the seat of the image of envy.

    4 And I saw the glory of the Lord there, as in the vision which I saw in the valley.

    5 Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in.

    6 And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.

  • Exod 40:27
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    27 Burning sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given him orders.

  • Luke 1:9-11
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    9 And as was the way of the priests, he had to go into the Temple to see to the burning of perfumes.

    10 And all the people were offering prayers outside, at the time of the burning of perfumes.

    11 And he saw an angel of the Lord in his place on the right side of the altar.

  • Ezek 14:1
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    1 Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to me and took their seats before me.

  • 1 Kgs 8:11
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    11 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord.

  • Ezek 10:2-3
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    2 And he said to the man clothed in linen, Go in between the wheels, under the winged ones, and get your two hands full of burning coals from between the winged ones and send them in a shower over the town. And he went in before my eyes.

    3 Now the winged ones were stationed on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the inner square was full of the cloud.

  • 2 Chr 29:7
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    7 The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.

  • Num 7:80
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    80 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

  • Exod 24:1
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    1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

  • Num 7:32
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    32 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

  • Jer 44:21
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    21 The perfumes which you have been burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers and your kings and your rulers and the people of the land, had the Lord no memory of them, and did he not keep them in mind?

  • Num 7:56
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    56 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

  • Num 7:38
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    38 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

  • Num 7:68
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    68 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

  • Exod 31:8
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    8 And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices,

  • Num 7:74
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    74 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

  • Num 7:20
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    20 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

  • Exod 30:7
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    7 And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.

  • Num 7:14
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    14 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for burning;

  • 2 Chr 29:11
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 5:14
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    14 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 13:1
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    1 Then a man of God came from Judah by the order of the Lord to Beth-el, where Jeroboam was by the altar, burning offerings.