House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
Parallel translations
- KJV O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
- BSB O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and shield.
- NKJV O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord; He is their help and their shield.
- NASB House of Aaron, trust in the Lord; He is their help and their shield.
- NLT O priests, descendants of Aaron, trust the Lord! He is your helper and your shield.
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Quick answer
The priestly house of Aaron is called to trust Yahweh as their help and shield. It matters because even spiritual leaders must rely on God, not their office.
Overview
The summons widens to the priesthood, those who minister at the altar, urging them too to trust rather than presume. No role or religious privilege replaces personal faith. The repeated 'help and shield' assures every order of God's people of his protection, a confidence fulfilled for all believers who are made a royal priesthood in Christ (1 Pet. 2:9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 118:3Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
- Num 18:7You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
- Num 16:40to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Num 16:5He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.
- Exod 28:1“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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