INCENSE

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• Exodus 30:1

  “You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

• Exodus 30:2

  Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

• Exodus 30:3

  You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

• Exodus 30:4

  You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.

• Exodus 30:5

  You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

• Exodus 30:6

  You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

• Exodus 30:7

  Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

• Exodus 30:8

  When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

• Exodus 30:34

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: there shall be an equal weight of each;

• Exodus 30:35

  and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:

• Exodus 30:36

  and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.

• Exodus 30:37

  The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.

• Exodus 30:38

  Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.”

• Exodus 37:29

  He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.

• Exodus 40:5

  You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

• Exodus 40:27

  and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 10:1

  Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.

• Leviticus 10:2

  Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 16:12

  He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:

• Leviticus 16:13

  and he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.

• Numbers 16:16

  Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

• Numbers 16:17

  Each man take his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.”

• Numbers 16:18

  They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.

• Numbers 16:19

  Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the congregation.

• Numbers 16:20

  Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

• Numbers 16:21

  “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

• Numbers 16:22

  They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

• Numbers 16:23

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 16:24

  “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’”

• Numbers 16:25

  Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

• Numbers 16:26

  He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

• Numbers 16:27

  So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

• Numbers 16:28

  Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.

• Numbers 16:29

  If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me.

• Numbers 16:30

  But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

• Numbers 16:31

  As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.

• Numbers 16:32

  The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.

• Numbers 16:33

  So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

• Numbers 16:34

  All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

• Numbers 16:35

  Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

• Numbers 16:40

  to 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.

• Numbers 16:46

  Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”

• Numbers 16:47

  Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. Behold, the plague has begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

• Deuteronomy 33:10

  They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.

• 1 Kings 12:23

  “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,

• 1 Chronicles 9:30

  Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.

• 2 Chronicles 2:4

  Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 13:11

  and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.

• 2 Chronicles 26:16

  But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

• 2 Chronicles 26:17

  Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men.

• 2 Chronicles 26:18

  They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

• 2 Chronicles 26:19

  Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the altar of incense.

• 2 Chronicles 26:20

  Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there. Yes, he himself also hurried to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.

• 2 Chronicles 26:21

  Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from Yahweh’s house. Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

• 2 Chronicles 32:12

  Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’

• Psalms 141:2

  Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

• Jeremiah 41:5

  men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

• Ezekiel 8:11

  Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.

• Malachi 1:11

  For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 2:11

  They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

• Luke 1:10

  The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

• Ephesians 5:2

  Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

• Revelation 5:8

  Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

• Revelation 8:3

  Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.

• Revelation 8:4

  The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.