Bible Cross References
If it seem
1 Kings 12:7
They replied, "If you want to serve this people well, give a favorable answer to their request, and they will always serve you loyally."
2 Kings 9:15
Proverbs 15:22
Get all the advice you can, and you will succeed; without it you will fail.
Philemon 1:8
For this reason I could be bold enough, as your brother in Christ, to order you to do what should be done.
Philemon 1:9
But because I love you, I make a request instead. I do this even though I am Paul, the ambassador of Christ Jesus, and at present also a prisoner for his sake.
and that it be
Exodus 18:23
If you do this, as God commands, you will not wear yourself out, and all these people can go home with their disputes settled."
2 Samuel 7:2-5
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Then the king said to the prophet Nathan, "Here I am living in a house built of cedar, but God's Covenant Box is kept in a tent!"
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Nathan answered, "Do whatever you have in mind, because the LORD is with you."
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But that night the LORD said to Nathan,
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"Go and tell my servant David that I say to him, 'You are not the one to build a temple for me to live in.
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1 Chronicles 10:7
When the Israelites who lived in Jezreel Valley heard that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and ran off. Then the Philistines came and occupied them.
1 Samuel 31:1
The Philistines fought a battle against the Israelites on Mount Gilboa. Many Israelites were killed there, and the rest of them, including King Saul and his sons, fled.
Isaiah 37:4
The Assyrian emperor has sent his chief official to insult the living God. May the LORD your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive."
the priests
1 Chronicles 15:2-14
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Then he said, "Only Levites should carry the Covenant Box, because they are the ones the LORD chose to carry it and to serve him forever."
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So David summoned all the people of Israel to Jerusalem in order to bring the Covenant Box to the place he had prepared for it.
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Next he sent for the descendants of Aaron and for the Levites.
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From the Levite clan of Kohath came Uriel, in charge of 120 members of his clan;
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from the clan of Merari came Asaiah, in charge of 220;
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from the clan of Gershon, Joel, in charge of 130;
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from the clan of Elizaphan, Shemaiah, in charge of 200;
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from the clan of Hebron, Eliel, in charge of 80;
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and from the clan of Uzziel, Amminadab, in charge of 112.
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David called in the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the six Levites, Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.
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He said to the Levites, "You are the leaders of the Levite clans. Purify yourselves and your fellow Levites, so that you can bring the Covenant Box of the LORD God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.
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Because you were not there to carry it the first time, the LORD our God punished us for not worshiping him as we should have done."
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Then the priests and the Levites purified themselves in order to move the Covenant Box of the LORD God of Israel.
Numbers 4:4-20
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Their service involves the most holy things.
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The LORD gave Moses the following instructions. When it is time to break camp, Aaron and his sons shall enter the Tent, take down the curtain in front of the Covenant Box, and cover the Box with it.
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They shall put a fine leather cover over it, spread a cloth of solid blue on top, and then insert the carrying poles.
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They shall spread a blue cloth over the table for the bread offered to the LORD and put on it the dishes, the incense bowls, the offering bowls, and the jars for the wine offering. There shall always be bread on the table.
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They shall spread a red cloth over all of this, put a fine leather cover over it, and then insert the carrying poles.
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They shall take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand, with its lamps, tongs, trays, and all the olive oil containers.
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They shall wrap it and all its equipment in a fine leather cover and place it on a carrying frame.
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Next they shall spread a blue cloth over the gold altar, put a fine leather cover over it, and then insert the carrying poles.
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They shall take all the utensils used in the Holy Place, wrap them in a blue cloth, put a fine leather cover over them, and place them on a carrying frame.
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They shall remove the greasy ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.
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They shall put on it all the equipment used in the service at the altar: fire pans, hooks, shovels, and basins. Then they shall put a fine leather cover over it and insert the carrying poles.
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When it is time to break camp, the clan of Kohath shall come to carry the sacred objects only after Aaron and his sons have finished covering them and all their equipment. The Kohath clan must not touch the sacred objects, or they will die. These are the responsibilities of the Kohath clan whenever the Tent is moved.
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Eleazar son of Aaron the priest shall be responsible for the whole Tent and for the oil for the lamps, the incense, the grain offerings, the anointing oil, and everything else in the Tent that has been consecrated to the LORD.
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
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"Do not let the clan of Kohath
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be killed by coming near these most sacred objects. To prevent this from happening, Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each man his task and tell him what to carry.
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But if the Kohathites enter the Tent and see the priests preparing the sacred objects for moving, they will die."
2 Chronicles 31:4-21
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In addition, the king told the people of Jerusalem to bring the offerings to which the priests and the Levites were entitled, so that they could give all their time to the requirements of the Law of the LORD.
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As soon as the order was given, the people of Israel brought gifts of their finest grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and other farm produce, and they also brought the tithes of everything they had.
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All the people who lived in the cities of Judah brought tithes of their cattle and sheep, and they also brought large quantities of gifts which they dedicated to the LORD their God.
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The gifts started arriving in the third month and continued to pile up for the next four months.
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When King Hezekiah and his officials saw how much had been given, they praised the LORD and praised his people Israel.
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The king spoke to the priests and the Levites about these gifts,
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and Azariah the High Priest, a descendant of Zadok, said to him, "Since the people started bringing their gifts to the Temple, there has been enough to eat and a large surplus besides. We have all this because the LORD has blessed his people."
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On the king's orders they prepared storerooms in the Temple area
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and put all the gifts and tithes in them for safekeeping. They placed a Levite named Conaniah in charge and made his brother Shimei his assistant.
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Ten Levites were assigned to work under them: Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah. All this was done under the authority of King Hezekiah and Azariah the High Priest.
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Kore son of Imnah, a Levite who was chief guard at the East Gate of the Temple, was in charge of receiving the gifts offered to the LORD and of distributing them.
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In the other cities where priests lived, he was faithfully assisted in this by other Levites: Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah. They distributed the food equally to their fellow Levites according to what their duties were,
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and not by clans. They gave a share to all males thirty years of age or older who had daily responsibilities in the Temple in accordance with their positions.
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The priests were assigned their duties by clans, and the Levites twenty years of age or older were assigned theirs by work groups.
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They were all registered together with their wives, children, and other dependents, because they were required to be ready to perform their sacred duties at any time.
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Among the priests who lived in the cities assigned to Aaron's descendants or in the pasture lands belonging to these cities, there were responsible men who distributed the food to all the males in the priestly families and to everyone who was on the rolls of the Levite clans.
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Throughout all Judah, King Hezekiah did what was right and what was pleasing to the LORD his God.
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He was successful, because everything he did for the Temple or in observance of the Law, he did in a spirit of complete loyalty and devotion to his God.
their cities and suburbs
1 Chronicles 6:54-81
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This is the territory assigned to the descendants of Aaron of the clan of Kohath. They received the first share of the land assigned to the Levites.
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This included Hebron in the territory of Judah and the pasture lands around it.
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The fields and villages, however, that belonged to the city were assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh.
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The following towns were assigned to Aaron's descendants: Hebron, a city of refuge, Jattir, and the towns of Libnah, Eshtemoa, Hilen, Debir, Ashan, and Beth Shemesh, with their pasture lands.
60
In the territory of Benjamin they were assigned the following towns with their pasture lands: Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth. This made a total of thirteen towns for all their families to live in.
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Ten towns in the territory of West Manasseh were assigned by lot to the rest of the clan of Kohath, family by family.
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To the clan of Gershon, family by family, were assigned thirteen towns in the territories of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and East Manasseh in Bashan.
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In the same way, twelve towns in the territories of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun were assigned to the clan of Merari, family by family.
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In this way the people of Israel assigned towns for the Levites to live in, together with the pasture lands around the towns.
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(The towns in the territories of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, mentioned above, were also assigned by drawing lots.)
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Some of the families of the clan of Kohath were assigned towns and pasture lands in the territory of Ephraim:
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Shechem, the city of refuge in the hills of Ephraim, Gezer,
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Aijalon, and Gath Rimmon.
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In the territory of West Manasseh they were assigned the towns of Aner and Bileam with the surrounding pasture lands.
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The families of the clan of Gershon were assigned the following towns, with the surrounding pasture lands: In the territory of East Manasseh: Golan in Bashan, and Ashtaroth.
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In the territory of Issachar: Kedesh, Daberath,
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In the territory of Asher: Mashal, Abdon,
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In the territory of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee, Hammon, and Kiriathaim.
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The remaining families of the clan of Merari were assigned the following towns with the surrounding pasture lands: In the territory of Zebulun: Rimmono and Tabor.
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In the territory of Reuben, east of the Jordan River beyond Jericho: Bezer on the plateau, Jahzah,
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Kedemoth, and Mephaath.
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In the territory of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead, Mahanaim,
Numbers 35:2-9
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"Tell the Israelites that from the property they receive they must give the Levites some cities to live in and pasture land around the cities.
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These cities will belong to the Levites, and they will live there. The pasture land will be for their cattle and all their other animals.
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The pasture land is to extend outward from the city walls five hundred yards in each direction,
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so that there is a square area measuring one thousand yards on each side, with the city in the middle.
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You are to give the Levites six cities of refuge to which any of you can escape if you kill someone accidentally. In addition, give them forty-two other cities
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with their pasture land, making a total of forty-eight.
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The number of Levite cities in each tribe is to be determined according to the size of its territory."