Luke 1:9

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according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

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  • Exod 30:7-8 : 7 Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he trims the lamps. 8 When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it. This shall be a perpetual incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.
  • 1 Chr 23:13 : 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart, he and his descendants forever, to consecrate the most holy things, to burn incense before the Lord, to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name forever.
  • 2 Chr 29:11 : 11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in His presence, to serve Him, and to minister to Him, and to burn incense.
  • 1 Sam 2:28 : 28 Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence? And I gave to your forefather’s family all the offerings made by fire from the Israelites.
  • 1 Chr 6:49 : 49 The sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their surrounding pasturelands.
  • Exod 37:25-29 : 25 He made the altar of incense from acacia wood. Its length was a cubit, its width a cubit—it was square—and its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it. 26 He overlaid it with pure gold—its top, its sides all around, and its horns—and he made a gold molding to surround it. 27 He made two gold rings for it below the molding on its two sides, on opposite sides, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry it. 28 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. 29 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
  • Heb 9:6 : 6 When these things were arranged this way, the priests would regularly enter the first room of the tabernacle to perform their ministry.
  • 2 Chr 26:16 : 16 But after Uzziah became strong, his heart was lifted up with pride, leading to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

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  • Luke 1:8
    87%

    8 Now it happened that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division,

  • Luke 1:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10 At the time of the incense offering, the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.

    11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense.

  • Lev 16:12-13
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    73%

    12 Then he shall take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring them inside the curtain.

    13 He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement cover above the testimony, so that he will not die.

  • Luke 2:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27 Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required,

    28 Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying:

  • Luke 1:5-6
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    72%

    5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, from the division of Abijah. His wife, Elizabeth, was also a descendant of Aaron.

    6 Both were righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.

  • Luke 1:23
    71%

    23 When the days of his ministry were completed, he went back home.

  • 2 Chr 29:11
    71%

    11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in His presence, to serve Him, and to minister to Him, and to burn incense.

  • Lev 9:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 He presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the prescribed manner.

    17 He presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering.

  • Exod 40:27
    70%

    27 He burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  • 2 Chr 26:18-19
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    70%

    18 They confronted King Uzziah and said to him, 'It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful, and you will not be honored by the Lord God.'

    19 Uzziah, who was holding a censer to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, near the altar of incense.

  • Heb 9:6
    70%

    6 When these things were arranged this way, the priests would regularly enter the first room of the tabernacle to perform their ministry.

  • Exod 30:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he trims the lamps.

    8 When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it. This shall be a perpetual incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.

  • Luke 1:67
    69%

    67 Then Zechariah, his father, was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying:

  • Ezek 8:11
    69%

    11 Seventy elders of the house of Israel were standing there, with Jaazaniah, son of Shaphan, standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense was rising.

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

    29 Others of them were appointed over the furniture, all the sacred utensils, as well as the fine flour, wine, oil, incense, and spices.

    30 Some of the priests prepared the mix of spices for the ointments.

  • Luke 1:75-76
    2 verses
    69%

    75 in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.

    76 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare His ways,

  • Neh 10:34
    69%

    34 This includes the bread of the Presence, the regular grain offerings, and burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the appointed feasts, as well as the holy offerings, sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    69%

    11 'Then Elkanah went to his home at Ramah, but the boy stayed to serve the LORD under the supervision of Eli the priest.'

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    69%

    11 When the priests came out of the holy place, for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves without regard to their divisions,

  • Neh 13:5
    69%

    5 He had provided Tobiah with a large room, where previously they had stored the grain offerings, incense, temple articles, tithes of grain, new wine, and oil, which were prescribed for the Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

  • 1 Chr 6:49
    69%

    49 The sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their surrounding pasturelands.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
    68%

    16 But after Uzziah became strong, his heart was lifted up with pride, leading to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

  • Ezek 40:46
    68%

    46 And the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who are from the descendants of Levi and are allowed to come near to the LORD to minister to Him.

  • 2 Chr 31:2
    68%

    2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites, each man according to his service—priests and Levites alike—for burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to serve, to give thanks, and to sing praises at the gates of the Lord’s camp.

  • Luke 1:15-17
    3 verses
    68%

    15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and will never drink wine or strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.

    16 He will turn many of the children of Israel back to the Lord their God.

    17 And he will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to prepare a people fit for the Lord.

  • Luke 1:59
    67%

    59 On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father.

  • Luke 4:16
    67%

    16 He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.

  • Rev 8:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3 Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all God's people on the golden altar before the throne.

    4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God's people, went up before God from the angel's hand.

  • Num 16:18
    67%

    18 So each of them took his censer, put fire and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

  • Deut 18:7
    67%

    7 then he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there before the LORD.

  • Luke 3:2
    67%

    2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.

  • Luke 2:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22 When the days of purification required by the law of Moses were completed, they took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.

    23 (As it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every firstborn male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord.")

  • 1 Chr 16:40
    67%

    40 They were to continually offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering, morning and evening, according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded for Israel.

  • Luke 1:25
    67%

    25 'The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor on me in these days, to take away my disgrace among the people.'

  • Num 16:7
    67%

    7 Put fire in them and place incense on them in the presence of the Lord tomorrow. The man the Lord chooses will be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!"

  • Ezra 3:4
    67%

    4 They celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles as prescribed, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, as was required for each day.

  • Num 7:56
    66%

    56 One golden dish weighing 10 shekels, filled with incense.