Bible Cross References
Let my prayer
Proverbs 15:8
The LORD is pleased when good people pray, but hates the sacrifices that the wicked bring him.
set forth
Psalm 5:3
you hear my voice in the morning; at sunrise I offer my prayer and wait for your answer.
as incense
Exodus 30:7-9
7
Every morning when Aaron comes to take care of the lamps, he is to burn sweet-smelling incense on it.
8
He must do the same when he lights the lamps in the evening. This offering of incense is to continue without interruption for all time to come.
9
Do not offer on this altar any forbidden incense, any animal offering, or any grain offering, and do not pour out any wine offering on it.
Exodus 30:34-38
34
The LORD said to Moses, "Take an equal part of each of the following sweet spices---stacte, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense.
35
Use them to make incense, mixed like perfume. Add salt to keep it pure and holy.
36
Beat part of it into a fine powder, take it into the Tent of my presence, and sprinkle it in front of the Covenant Box. Treat this incense as completely holy.
37
Do not use the same formula to make any incense like it for yourselves. Treat it as a holy thing dedicated to me.
38
If anyone makes any like it for use as perfume, he will no longer be considered one of my people."
Leviticus 10:1
Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan, put live coals in it, added incense, and presented it to the LORD. But this fire was not holy, because the LORD had not commanded them to present it.
Leviticus 10:2
Suddenly the LORD sent fire, and it burned them to death there in the presence of the LORD.
Leviticus 16:11-13
11
When Aaron sacrifices the bull as the sin offering for himself and his family,
12
he shall take a fire pan full of burning coals from the altar and two handfuls of fine incense and bring them into the Most Holy Place.
13
There in the LORD's presence he shall put the incense on the fire, and the smoke of the incense will hide the lid of the Covenant Box so that he will not see it and die.
Numbers 16:35
Then the LORD sent a fire that blazed out and burned up the 250 men who had presented the incense.
Numbers 16:46-48
46
and Moses said to Aaron, "Take your fire pan, put live coals from the altar in it, and put some incense on the coals. Then hurry with it to the people and perform the ritual of purification for them. Hurry! The LORD's anger has already broken out and an epidemic has already begun."
47
Aaron obeyed, took his fire pan and ran into the middle of the assembled people. When he saw that the plague had already begun, he put the incense on the coals and performed the ritual of purification for the people.
48
This stopped the plague, and he was left standing between the living and the dead.
Malachi 1:11
People from one end of the world to the other honor me. Everywhere they burn incense to me and offer acceptable sacrifices. All of them honor me!
Luke 1:9
According to the custom followed by the priests, he was chosen by lot to burn incense on the altar. So he went into the Temple of the Lord,
Luke 1:10
while the crowd of people outside prayed during the hour when the incense was burned.
Revelation 5:8
As he did so, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each had a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God's people.
Revelation 8:3
Another angel, who had a gold incense container, came and stood at the altar. He was given a lot of incense to add to the prayers of all God's people and to offer it on the gold altar that stands before the throne.
Revelation 8:4
The smoke of the burning incense went up with the prayers of God's people from the hands of the angel standing before God.
the lifting
Psalm 28:2
Hear me when I cry to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy Temple.
Psalm 63:4
I will give you thanks as long as I live; I will raise my hands to you in prayer.
Psalm 134:2
Raise your hands in prayer in the Temple, and praise the LORD!
1 Timothy 2:8
In every church service I want the men to pray, men who are dedicated to God and can lift up their hands in prayer without anger or argument.
the evening
Exodus 29:39
Sacrifice one of the lambs in the morning and the other in the evening.
Exodus 29:42
For all time to come, this burnt offering is to be offered in my presence at the entrance of the Tent of my presence. That is where I will meet my people and speak to you.
1 Kings 18:36
At the hour of the afternoon sacrifice the prophet Elijah approached the altar and prayed, "O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prove now that you are the God of Israel and that I am your servant and have done all this at your command.
Ezra 9:4
I sat there grieving until the time for the evening sacrifice to be offered, and people began to gather around me---all those who were frightened because of what the God of Israel had said about the sins of those who had returned from exile.
Daniel 9:21
While I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came flying down to where I was. It was the time for the evening sacrifice to be offered.
Acts 3:1
One day Peter and John went to the Temple at three o'clock in the afternoon, the hour for prayer.