2 Kings 23:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Nevertheless, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

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  • Ezek 44:10-14 : 10 And the Levites who went far away from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray away from me after their idols; they shall bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13 And they shall not come near to me, to perform the office of a priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. 14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.
  • Ezek 44:29-31 : 29 They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every offering of every kind, of all your offerings, shall belong to the priests; you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in your house. 31 The priests shall not eat anything that has died naturally, or was torn, whether it is bird or beast.
  • Mal 2:8-9 : 8 But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts. 9 Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

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  • 2 Kgs 23:8
    74%

    8And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

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

    9Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

    10But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests who minister to the LORD are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.

    11And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: they also set the showbread in order upon the pure table; and the gold lampstand with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but you have forsaken him.

  • Lev 21:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

    23Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
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    3However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

  • Lev 23:6
    71%

    6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

  • Matt 12:4
    71%

    4how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

  • Luke 6:4
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    4How he went into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, and also gave to those who were with him, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?

  • Hos 9:4
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    4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him; their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all who eat thereof shall be polluted, for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31And he made a house of high places and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
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    34But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore, their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was done, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • 1 Sam 21:6
    70%

    6So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread, which was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day it was taken away.

  • Mal 1:7
    70%

    7You offer defiled bread upon my altar; and you say, How have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

  • Exod 29:2
    70%

    2And unleavened bread, and cakes of unleavened bread mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: of wheat flour you shall make them.

  • Heb 13:10
    70%

    10We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • Exod 29:23
    70%

    23And one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD,

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    70%

    4Except that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still on the high places.

  • Mark 2:26
    69%

    26How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave to those who were with him?

  • 2 Chr 11:14
    69%

    14For the Levites left their suburbs and possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from executing the priest's office to the LORD.

  • Lev 22:25
    69%

    25Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes are in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • 2 Chr 30:3
    69%

    3For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:20
    69%

    20And he slew all the priests of the high places who were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • Lev 7:6
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    6Every male among the priests shall eat it: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy.

  • Lev 6:29
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    29All the males among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.

  • 1 Chr 9:32
    69%

    32Their brethren from the Kohathites were in charge of preparing the showbread every Sabbath.

  • 2 Kgs 12:16
    69%

    16The guilt money and sin money were not brought into the house of the LORD; it was the priests’.

  • Lev 6:16
    69%

    16And the remainder of it Aaron and his sons shall eat: with unleavened bread it shall be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of meeting they shall eat it.

  • 2 Kgs 23:5
    69%

    5And he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas around Jerusalem, those also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    68%

    14Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed greatly after all the abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 23:29
    68%

    29Both for the showbread, and for the fine flour for grain offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all kinds of measure and size;

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    68%

    32They feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    68%

    17Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    68%

    6But let none come into the house of the LORD, except the priests, and those that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

  • Ezek 46:20
    68%

    20Then he said unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the grain offering; that they carry them not out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.

  • Ezek 4:13
    68%

    13And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.

  • Lev 22:10
    68%

    10No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a temporary resident of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Lev 22:15
    68%

    15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    68%

    15Also, before they burned the fat, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, Give meat to roast for the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.

  • 2 Kgs 23:10
    68%

    10And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.

  • Mal 1:12
    68%

    12But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is defiled; and its produce, even its food, is contemptible.

  • Exod 13:6
    68%

    6Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

  • Lev 6:26
    68%

    26The priest that offers it for sin shall eat it: it shall be eaten in the holy place, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
    68%

    5And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 44:31
    67%

    31The priests shall not eat anything that has died naturally, or was torn, whether it is bird or beast.

  • Jer 19:13
    67%

    13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    67%

    35However, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

  • Jer 7:17
    67%

    17Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Joel 1:9
    67%

    9The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.