DEDICATION

Passages on this topic · 41

• Leviticus 1:3

  “‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 22:18

  “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering;

• Leviticus 22:19

  that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

• Leviticus 22:20

  But whatever has a defect, that you shall not offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

• Leviticus 22:21

  Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.

• Leviticus 22:22

  Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore: you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 22:23

  Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

• Leviticus 27:28

  “‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 27:29

  “‘No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

• Numbers 18:14

  “Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.

• Deuteronomy 20:5

  The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

• 1 Samuel 1:11

  She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

• 1 Samuel 1:22

  But Hannah didn’t go up; for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”

• 1 Kings 8:65

  So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

• 1 Chronicles 26:26

  This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.

• 1 Chronicles 26:27

  They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 7:5

  King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 7:8

  So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 7:9

  On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

• 2 Chronicles 7:10

  On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

• Ezra 6:16

  The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

• Ezra 6:17

  They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

• Nehemiah 12:27

  At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

• Nehemiah 12:28

  The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;

• Nehemiah 12:29

  also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.

• Nehemiah 12:30

  The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

• Nehemiah 12:31

  Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;

• Nehemiah 12:32

  and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah,

• Nehemiah 12:33

  and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

• Nehemiah 12:34

  Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,

• Nehemiah 12:35

  and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;

• Nehemiah 12:36

  and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.

• Nehemiah 12:37

  By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.

• Nehemiah 12:38

  The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,

• Nehemiah 12:39

  and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.

• Nehemiah 12:40

  So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;

• Nehemiah 12:41

  and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

• Nehemiah 12:42

  and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

• Nehemiah 12:43

  They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.

• Malachi 1:14

  “But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

• John 10:22

  It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.