Deuteronomy 10:8

God set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark, minister before Him, and bless in His name. The Levites were consecrated for sacred service.

Cross-references · 34

• Deut 21:5And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
• Deut 18:5For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
• Num 4:15And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
• Num 6:23–26Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
• Num 3:6Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
• 2 Chr 30:27Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
• John 15:16Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
• Jer 15:19Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
• Num 16:9–10Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
• Num 18:1–32And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
• Ps 135:2Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God,
• Exod 29:1–37And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
• Rom 12:7Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
• 1 Chr 15:12–15And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.
• Lev 9:22And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
• Num 1:47–53But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
• 1 Chr 15:26And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
• 2 Cor 6:17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
• Num 8:1–26And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
• Gal 1:15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
• Ps 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
• 2 Chr 29:11My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
• Lev 8:9And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Deut 17:12And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
• 2 Chr 5:4–5And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
• Ezek 44:15But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
• 1 Chr 23:26And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
• 1 Kgs 8:3–4And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
• Ezek 44:11Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
• 1 Kgs 8:6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
• Rom 1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
• Num 3:31And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
• Acts 13:2As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
• Num 3:1–4These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

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