He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them in the service of Yahweh’s house.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
- BSB He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.
- NKJV And he set the priests in their duties and encouraged them for the service of the house of the Lord.
- NASB He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord.
- NLT Josiah also assigned the priests to their duties and encouraged them in their work at the Temple of the Lord.
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Quick answer
Josiah restores the priests to their duties and strengthens them for temple service. Right worship requires both proper order and encouraged ministers.
Overview
The king reinstates the priests in their assigned offices and gives them encouragement to serve faithfully at the house of the LORD. This attention to ordered ministry echoes the arrangements of David and Solomon and underscores that true reform restores God-given structures of worship. It models how godly leaders both organize and embolden those who serve God's people.
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Cross-references · 8
- 2 Chr 31:2Hezekiah 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, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of Yahweh’s camp.
- 1 Chr 22:19Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”
- 1 Chr 24:1–31These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- 2 Chr 23:18Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.
- 2 Chr 23:8So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn’t dismiss the shift.
- Num 18:5–7“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.
- 2 Chr 29:5–11and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify Yahweh, the God of your fathers’ house, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.
- Ezra 6:18They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
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