Luke 1:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

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  • Exod 30:7-8 : 7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it. 8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
  • 1 Chr 23:13 : 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.
  • 2 Chr 29:11 : 11 My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.
  • 1 Sam 2:28 : 28 and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
  • 1 Chr 6:49 : 49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
  • Exod 37:25-29 : 25 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it. 26 He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it. 27 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which 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 incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
  • Num 16:40 : 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
  • Heb 9:6 : 6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
  • 2 Chr 26:16 : 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.

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  • Luke 1:8
    87%

    8 Now it happened, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his division,

  • Luke 1:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10 The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

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

  • Lev 16:12-13
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    73%

    12 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:

    13 and he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.

  • Luke 2:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27 He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,

    28 then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

  • Luke 1:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

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

  • Luke 1:23
    71%

    23 It happened, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house.

  • 2 Chr 29:11
    71%

    11 My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.

  • Lev 9:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

    17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.

  • Exod 40:27
    70%

    27 and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • 2 Chr 26:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God.

    19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense.

  • Heb 9:6
    70%

    6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

  • Exod 30:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

    8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

  • Luke 1:67
    69%

    67 His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

  • Ezek 8:11
    69%

    11 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.

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

    29 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.

    30 Some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the spices.

  • Luke 1:75-76
    2 verses
    69%

    75 In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

    76 And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,

  • Neh 10:34
    69%

    34 We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law;

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    69%

    11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    69%

    11 It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their divisions;

  • Neh 13:5
    69%

    5 had prepared for him a great chamber, where before they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.

  • 1 Chr 6:49
    69%

    49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
    68%

    16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.

  • Ezek 40:46
    68%

    46 and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.

  • 2 Chr 31:2
    68%

    2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh.

  • Luke 1:15-17
    3 verses
    68%

    15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor 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 to the Lord, their God.

    17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

  • Luke 1:59
    67%

    59 It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.

  • Luke 4:16
    67%

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

  • Rev 8:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3 Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.

    4 The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.

  • Num 16:18
    67%

    18 They took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

  • Deut 18:7
    67%

    7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.

  • Luke 3:2
    67%

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

  • Luke 2:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22 When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

    23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),

  • 1 Chr 16:40
    67%

    40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel;

  • Luke 1:25
    67%

    25 "Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men."

  • Num 16:7
    67%

    7 and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh does choose, he [shall be] holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi.

  • Ezra 3:4
    67%

    4 They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and [offered] the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

  • Num 7:56
    66%

    56 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;