Ezekiel 44:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

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  • Ezek 41:22 : 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before the LORD.
  • Mal 1:7 : 7 You 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.
  • Mal 1:12 : 12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is defiled; and its produce, even its food, is contemptible.
  • Num 18:7-8 : 7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the veil; and you shall serve: I have given your priest's office to you as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death. 8 And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Behold, I also have given you the charge of my heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, by an ordinance forever.
  • Deut 33:8-9 : 8 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your holy one, whom you tried at Massah, and with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew his own children: for they have observed your word, and kept your covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they shall put incense before you, and whole burnt sacrifice upon your altar.
  • Num 18:5 : 5 And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 And has made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 44:10-15
    6 verses
    88%

    10And 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.

    11Yet 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.

    12Because 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.

    13And 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.

    14But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

    15But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord GOD:

  • Ezek 44:17
    80%

    17And it shall come to pass, that when they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

  • Ezek 42:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13Then he said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate area, are holy chambers, where the priests who approach to the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

    14When the priests enter there, they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and approach to those things which are for the people.

  • Ezek 48:11
    77%

    11It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; who have kept my charge, and did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

  • Ezek 40:45-46
    2 verses
    76%

    45Then he said to me, "This chamber which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple.

    46The chamber which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; they are the sons of Zadok, who are from the sons of Levi, who come near to the LORD to minister to Him."

  • Ezek 44:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7When you brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to defile it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they broke my covenant because of all your abominations.

    8And you have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have appointed others to take care of my sanctuary for yourselves.

  • Ezek 45:4
    76%

    4The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

  • Num 18:3-7
    5 verses
    76%

    3And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor you also, die.

    4And they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come near you.

    5And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

    6And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

    7Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the veil; and you shall serve: I have given your priest's office to you as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

  • Ezek 44:27
    75%

    27And on the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord GOD.

  • Num 3:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, so that they may serve him.

    7And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

    8And they shall keep all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to perform the service of the tabernacle.

  • 1 Chr 23:32
    75%

    32And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, in the service of the house of the LORD.

  • Lev 22:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

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

    16Or cause them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    75%

    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 44:19
    75%

    19And when they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

  • Ezek 44:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

    24And in controversy, they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments, and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies; and they shall hallow my Sabbaths.

  • Lev 22:9
    74%

    9They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die thereby, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Exod 29:44
    74%

    44I will sanctify the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify both Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office.

  • Deut 18:7
    73%

    7Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.

  • Num 4:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19But do this for them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint every one to his service and to his burden:

    20But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

  • Num 3:31
    73%

    31Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary, with which they minister, the curtain, and all related service.

  • Ezek 43:19
    73%

    19You shall give to the priests, the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me to minister to me, says the Lord GOD, a young bull for a sin offering.

  • Num 8:15
    73%

    15After that, the Levites shall go in to perform the service of the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall cleanse them and offer them as a wave offering.

  • Exod 28:41
    72%

    41And you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may serve Me as priests.

  • Num 8:26
    72%

    26But they may minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of meeting, to attend to needs, but shall do no work. Thus shall you do to the Levites regarding their duties.

  • 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.

  • Isa 66:21
    72%

    21And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.

  • Exod 31:10
    72%

    10The garments of service, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office,

  • Ezek 44:29
    71%

    29They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

  • Lev 21:6
    71%

    6They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy.

  • Ezek 22:26
    71%

    26Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

  • Exod 29:30
    71%

    30That son who becomes priest in his place shall put them on for seven days, when he enters the tabernacle of meeting to minister in the holy place.

  • Num 1:50
    71%

    50But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all things that belong to it: they shall carry the tabernacle, and all its vessels; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp around the tabernacle.