Luke 1:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Exod 30:7-8 : 7 Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense. 8 When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.
  • 1 Chr 23:13 : 13 The sons of Amram:Aaron and Moses.Aaron and his descendants were chosen on a permanent basis to consecrate the most holy items, to offer sacrifices before the LORD, to serve him, and to praise his name.
  • 2 Chr 29:11 : 11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him, to be his ministers, and offer sacrifices.”
  • 1 Sam 2:28 : 28 I chose your ancestor from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifice on my altar, to burn incense, and to bear the ephod before me. I gave to your ancestor’s house all the fire offerings made by the Israelites.
  • 1 Chr 6:49 : 49 But Aaron and his descendants offered sacrifices on the altar for burnt offerings and on the altar for incense as they had been assigned to do in the most holy sanctuary. They made atonement for Israel, just as God’s servant Moses had ordered.
  • Exod 37:25-29 : 25 The Making of the Altar of Incense He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half– a square– and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it. 26 He overlaid it with pure gold– its top, its four walls, and its horns– and he made a surrounding border of gold for it. 27 He also made two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, as places for poles to carry it with. 28 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. 29 He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
  • Num 16:40 : 40 It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his company– just as the LORD had spoken by the authority of Moses.
  • Heb 9:6 : 6 So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.
  • 2 Chr 26:16 : 16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He disobeyed the LORD his God. He entered the LORD’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Luke 1:8
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    8Now while Zechariah was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,

  • Luke 1:10-11
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    85%

    10Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.

    11An angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense, appeared to him.

  • Lev 16:12-13
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    73%

    12and take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD and a full double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring them inside the curtain.

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

  • Luke 2:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

    28Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, saying,

  • Luke 1:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5Birth Announcement of John the Baptist During the reign of Herod king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and he had a wife named Elizabeth, who was a descendant of Aaron.

    6They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

  • Luke 1:23
    71%

    23When his time of service was over, he went to his home.

  • 2 Chr 29:11
    71%

    11My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him, to be his ministers, and offer sacrifices.”

  • Lev 9:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16He then presented the burnt offering, and did it according to the standard regulation.

    17Next he presented the grain offering, filled his hand with some of it, and offered it up in smoke on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering.

  • Exod 40:27
    70%

    27and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • 2 Chr 26:18-19
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    70%

    18They confronted King Uzziah and said to him,“It is not proper for you, Uzziah, to offer incense to the LORD. That is the responsibility of the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to offer incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have disobeyed and the LORD God will not honor you!”

    19Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving at the priests, a skin disease appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the LORD’s temple near the incense altar.

  • Heb 9:6
    70%

    6So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.

  • Exod 30:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense.

    8When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.

  • Luke 1:67
    69%

    67Zechariah’s Praise and Prediction Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied,

  • Ezek 8:11
    69%

    11Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel(with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

  • 1 Chr 9:29-30
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    69%

    29Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.

    30(But some of the priests mixed the spices.)

  • Luke 1:75-76
    2 verses
    69%

    75in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.

    76And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

  • Neh 10:34
    69%

    34“We– the priests, the Levites, and the people– have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the law.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    69%

    11Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. Eli’s Sons Misuse Their Sacred OfficeThe boy was serving the LORD with the favor of Eli the priest.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    69%

    11The priests left the holy place. All the priests who participated had consecrated themselves, no matter which division they represented.

  • Neh 13:5
    69%

    5He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.

  • 1 Chr 6:49
    69%

    49But Aaron and his descendants offered sacrifices on the altar for burnt offerings and on the altar for incense as they had been assigned to do in the most holy sanctuary. They made atonement for Israel, just as God’s servant Moses had ordered.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
    68%

    16But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He disobeyed the LORD his God. He entered the LORD’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

  • Ezek 40:46
    68%

    46and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the LORD to minister to him.”

  • 2 Chr 31:2
    68%

    2The People Contribute to the Temple Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks– to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the LORD’s sanctuary.

  • Luke 1:15-17
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    68%

    15for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.

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

    17And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”

  • Luke 1:59
    67%

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

  • Luke 4:16
    67%

    16Rejection at Nazareth Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,

  • Rev 8:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3Another angel holding a golden censer came and was stationed at the altar. A large amount of incense was given to him to offer up, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar that is before the throne.

    4The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.

  • Num 16:18
    67%

    18So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

  • Deut 18:7
    67%

    7and serves in the name of the LORD his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

  • Luke 3:2
    67%

    2during 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%

    22Jesus’ Presentation at the Temple Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

    23(just as it is written in the law of the Lord,“Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

  • 1 Chr 16:40
    67%

    40regularly offering burnt sacrifices to the LORD on the altar for burnt sacrifice, morning and evening, according to what is prescribed in the law of the LORD which he charged Israel to observe.

  • Luke 1:25
    67%

    25“This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people.”

  • Num 16:7
    67%

    7put fire in them, and set incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses will be holy. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!”

  • Ezra 3:4
    67%

    4They observed the Feast of Shelters as required and offered the proper number of daily burnt offerings according to the requirement for each day.

  • Num 7:56
    66%

    56one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;