Luke 1:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

And it came to passe, as he executed the Priestes office before God, as his course came in order,

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  • 1 Chr 24:19 : 19 These were their orders according to their offices, when they entred into the house of the Lorde according to their custome vnder the hande of Aaron their father, as the Lorde God of Israel had commaunded him.
  • 2 Chr 8:14 : 14 And he set the courses of the Priestes to their offices, according to the order of Dauid his father, and the Leuites in their watches, for to praise and minister before the Priestes euery day, and the porters by their courses, at euery gate: for so was the commandement of Dauid the man of God.
  • 2 Chr 31:2 : 2 And Hezekiah appoynted the courses of the Priests and Leuites by their turnes, euery man according to his office, both Priestes and Leuites, for the burnt offring and peace offrings, to minister and to giue thankes, & to prayse in the gates of the tentes of the Lord.
  • Luke 1:5 : 5 In the time of Herod King of Iudea, there was a certaine Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabet.
  • 2 Chr 31:19 : 19 Also to the sonnes of Aaron, the Priestes, which were in the fieldes & suburbes of their cities, in euery citie the men that were appointed by names, shoulde giue portions to all the males of the Priestes, and to all the generation of the Leuites.
  • Ezra 6:18 : 18 And they set the Priests in their order, and the Leuites in their courses ouer the seruice of God in Ierusalem, as it is written in the booke of Moses.
  • 2 Chr 11:14 : 14 For the Leuites left their suburbes & their possession, and came to Iudah and to Ierusalem: for Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them out from ministring in the Priestes office vnto the Lorde.
  • Exod 28:1 : 1 And cause thou thy brother Aaron to come vnto thee and his sonnes with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may serue me in the Priestes office: I meane Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar Aarons sonnes.
  • Exod 28:41 : 41 And thou shalt put them vpon Aaron thy brother, and on his sonnes with him, and shalt anoint them, and fill their handes, and sanctifie them, that they may minister vnto me in the Priestes office.
  • Exod 29:1 : 1 This thing also shalt thou do vnto them whe thou consecratest them to be my Priestes, Take a yong calfe, & two rams wtout blemish,
  • Exod 29:9 : 9 And shalt girde them with girdles, both Aaron and his sonnes: and shalt put the bonets on them, and the Priestes office shalbe theirs for a perpetuall lawe: thou shalt also fill the hands of Aaron, and the hands of his sonnes.
  • Exod 29:44 : 44 And I will sanctifie the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the altar: I will sanctifie also Aaron & his sonnes to be my Priests,
  • Exod 30:30 : 30 Thou shalt also anoint Aaron & his sonnes, & shalt consecrate them, that they may minister vnto me in the Priests office.
  • Num 18:7 : 7 But thou, and thy sonnes with thee shall keepe your Priestes office for all things of the altar, and within the vaile: therefore shal ye serue: for I haue made your Priestes office an office of seruice: therefore the stranger that cometh neere, shalbe slayne.
  • 1 Chr 24:2 : 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar & Ithamar executed the Priestes office.

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  • Luke 1:9-26
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    9 According to the custome of the Priests office, his lot was to burne incense, when he went into the Temple of the Lord.

    10 And the whole multitude of the people were without in prayer, while the incense was burning.

    11 Then appeared vnto him an Angel of the Lorde standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

    12 And when Zacharias sawe him, he was troubled, and feare fell vpon him.

    13 But the Angel saide vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard, and thy wise Elisabet shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.

    14 And thou shalt haue ioy and gladnes, and many shall reioyce at his birth.

    15 For he shalbe great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drinke wine, nor strong drinke: and he shalbe filled with the holy Ghost, euen from his mothers wombe.

    16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turne to their Lord God.

    17 For he shall goe before him in the spirite and power of Elias, to turne the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisedome of the iust men, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

    18 Then Zacharias said vnto ye Angel, Whereby shall I knowe this? For I am an olde man, and my wife is of a great age.

    19 And the Angell answered, and sayde vnto him, I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God, and am sent to speake vnto thee, & to shew thee these good tidings.

    20 And beholde, thou shalt be domme, & not be able to speake, vntill the day that these things be done, because thou beleeuedst not my words, which shalbe fulfilled in their season.

    21 Now the people waited for Zacharias, and marueiled that he taried so long in the Temple.

    22 And when hee came out, hee coulde not speake vnto them: then they perceiued that hee had seene a vision in the Temple: For he made signes vnto them, and remained domme.

    23 And it came to passe, when the daies of his office were fulfilled, that he departed to his owne house.

    24 And after those daies, his wife Elisabet conceiued, and hid her selfe fiue moneths, saying,

    25 Thus hath the Lorde dealt with me, in the daies wherein he looked on me, to take from me my rebuke among men.

    26 And in the sixth moneth, the Angell Gabriel was sent from God vnto a citie of Galile, named Nazareth,

  • Luke 1:5-7
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    5 In the time of Herod King of Iudea, there was a certaine Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabet.

    6 Both were iust before God, and walked in all the commandements and ordinances of the Lord, without reproofe.

    7 And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.

  • Luke 1:56-59
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    56 And Marie abode with her about three moneths: after, shee returned to her owne house.

    57 Nowe Elisabets time was fulfilled, that shee should be deliuered, and shee brought foorth a sonne.

    58 And her neighbours, and cousins heard tell howe the Lorde had shewed his great mercie vpon her, and they reioyced with her.

    59 And it was so that on the eight day they came to circumcise the babe, and called him Zacharias after the name of his father.

  • Luke 1:62-67
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    62 Then they made signes to his father, howe he would haue him called.

    63 So hee asked for writing tables, and wrote, saying, His name is Iohn, and they marueiled all.

    64 And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue, and he spake and praised God.

    65 Then feare came on all them that dwelt neere vnto them, and all these woordes were noised abroade throughout all the hill countrey of Iudea.

    66 And al they that heard them, laid them vp in their hearts, saying, What maner childe shall this be! and the hand of the Lord was with him.

    67 Then his father Zacharias was filled with the holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,

  • Luke 3:1-2
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    1 Nowe in the fifteenth yeere of the reigne of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being gouernour of Iudea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galile, and his brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea, and of the countrey of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the Tetrarch of Abilene,

    2 ( When Annas and Caiaphas were the hie Priestes) the worde of God came vnto Iohn, the sonne of Zacharias in the wildernes.

  • Luke 1:36
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    36 And behold, thy cousin Elisabet, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her olde age: and this is her sixt moneth, which was called barren.

  • Luke 1:39-41
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    39 And Marie arose in those daies, & went into ye hil countrey with hast to a citie of Iuda,

    40 And entred into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabet.

    41 And it came to passe, as Elisabet heard the salutation of Marie, the babe sprang in her bellie, and Elisabet was filled with the holy Ghost.

  • Luke 1:74-76
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    74 Which was, that he would graunt vnto vs, that we being deliuered out of the handes of our enemies, should serue him without feare,

    75 All the daies of our life, in holinesse and righteousnesse before him.

    76 And thou, babe, shalt be called the Prophet of the most High: for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord, to prepare his waies,

  • Luke 2:27-28
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    27 And he came by the motion of the spirit into the Temple, and when the parents brought in the babe Iesus, to do for him after the custome of the Lawe,

    28 Then hee tooke him in his armes, and praised God, and sayd,

  • Luke 1:80
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    80 And the childe grewe, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the wildernesse, til the day came that he should shewe him selfe vnto Israel.

  • Luke 1:44
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    44 For loe, assoone as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe sprang in my bellie for ioye,

  • 2 Chr 5:11
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    11 And when the Priestes were come out of the Sanctuarie (for all the Priests that were present, were sanctified & did not waite by course.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
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    11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house, and the childe did minister vnto the Lord before Eli the Priest.

  • Luke 2:23
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    23 (As it is written in the Lawe of the Lorde, Euery man childe that first openeth ye wombe, shalbe called holy to the Lord)

  • Luke 2:6
    68%

    6 And so it was, that while they were there, the daies were accomplished that shee shoulde be deliuered,

  • Luke 1:32
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    32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Sonne of the most High, and the Lorde God shall giue vnto him the throne of his father Dauid.

  • Luke 2:40
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    40 And the childe grewe, and waxed strong in Spirit, and was filled with wisedome, and the grace of God was with him.