Bible Cross References
Remember
Nehemiah 6:14
I prayed, "God, remember what Tobiah and Sanballat have done and punish them. Remember that woman Noadiah and all the other prophets who tried to frighten me."
Psalm 59:5-13
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Rise, LORD God Almighty, and come to my aid; see for yourself, God of Israel! Wake up and punish the heathen; show no mercy to evil traitors!
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They come back in the evening, snarling like dogs as they go about the city.
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Listen to their insults and threats. Their tongues are like swords in their mouths, yet they think that no one hears them.
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But you laugh at them, LORD; you mock all the heathen.
9
I have confidence in your strength; you are my refuge, O God.
10
My God loves me and will come to me; he will let me see my enemies defeated.
11
Do not kill them, O God, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your strength and defeat them, O Lord, our protector.
12
Sin is on their lips; all their words are sinful; may they be caught in their pride! Because they curse and lie,
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destroy them in your anger; destroy them completely. Then everyone will know that God rules in Israel, that his rule extends over all the earth.
2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the metalworker did me great harm; the Lord will reward him according to what he has done.
because they have defiled
Leviticus 21:1-7
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The LORD commanded Moses to tell the Aaronite priests, "No priest is to make himself ritually unclean by taking part in the funeral ceremonies when a relative dies,
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unless it is his mother, father, son, daughter, brother,
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or unmarried sister living in his house.
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He shall not make himself unclean at the death of those related to him by marriage.
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"No priest shall shave any part of his head or trim his beard or cut gashes on his body to show that he is in mourning.
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He must be holy and must not disgrace my name. He offers food offerings to me, and he must be holy.
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A priest shall not marry a woman who has been a prostitute or a woman who is not a virgin or who is divorced; he is holy.
the covenant
Numbers 16:9
Do you consider it a small matter that the God of Israel has set you apart from the rest of the community, so that you can approach him, perform your service in the LORD's Tent, and minister to the community and serve them?
Numbers 16:10
He has let you and all the other Levites have this honor---and now you are trying to get the priesthood too!
Numbers 25:12
So tell him that I am making a covenant with him that is valid for all time to come.
Numbers 25:13
He and his descendants are permanently established as priests, because he did not tolerate any rivals to me and brought about forgiveness for the people's sin."
1 Samuel 2:30
I, the LORD God of Israel, promised in the past that your family and your clan would serve me as priests for all time. But now I say that I won't have it any longer! Instead, I will honor those who honor me, and I will treat with contempt those who despise me.
Malachi 2:4-8
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Then you will know that I have given you this command, so that my covenant with the priests, the descendants of Levi, will not be broken.
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"In my covenant I promised them life and well-being, and this is what I gave them, so that they might respect me. In those days they did respect and fear me.
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They taught what was right, not what was wrong. They lived in harmony with me; they not only did what was right themselves, but they also helped many others to stop doing evil.
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It is the duty of priests to teach the true knowledge of God. People should go to them to learn my will, because they are the messengers of the LORD Almighty.
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"But now you priests have turned away from the right path. Your teaching has led many to do wrong. You have broken the covenant I made with you.
Malachi 2:10-12
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Don't we all have the same father? Didn't the same God create us all? Then why do we break our promises to one another, and why do we despise the covenant that God made with our ancestors?
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The people of Judah have broken their promise to God and done a horrible thing in Jerusalem and all over the country. They have defiled the Temple which the LORD loves. Men have married women who worship foreign gods.
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May the LORD remove from the community of Israel those who did this, and never again let them participate in the offerings our nation brings to the LORD Almighty.