Incense

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Exodus 30:1 OT

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

• Exodus 30:6 OT

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

• Exodus 40:5 OT

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

• Exodus 30:7 OT

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

• Exodus 30:8 OT

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

• Leviticus 16:12 OT

  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 OT

  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 covenant, so that he will not die.

• Luke 1:9 NT

  according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

• Luke 1:10 NT

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

• Numbers 16:47 OT

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

• Leviticus 2:1 OT

  “ ‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.

• Leviticus 2:2 OT

  He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to…

• Leviticus 2:15 OT

  You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.

• Leviticus 2:16 OT

  The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 6:15 OT

  He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial portion, to Yahweh.

• 1 Chronicles 9:29 OT

  Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

• Jeremiah 48:35 OT

  Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says Yahweh, “him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.

• Isaiah 1:13 OT

  Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.

• Isaiah 66:3 OT

  He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen…

• Isaiah 65:3 OT

  a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

• 2 Chronicles 34:25 OT

  Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’ ” ’

• Leviticus 10:2 OT

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

• Numbers 16:16-35 OT

  Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow. Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and…

• 2 Chronicles 26:16-21 OT

  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. Azariah the priest went in after him, and with…