Levites

Nave's Topical Bible

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• Numbers 2:33 OT

  But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Numbers 3:14-39 OT

  Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.” Moses counted them according to Yahweh’s word, as…

• Numbers 4:2 OT

  “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

• 1 Chronicles 23:3-5 OT

  The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were…

• 2 Chronicles 11:13-17 OT

  The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory. For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that…

• 2 Chronicles 13:9-11 OT

  Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may…

• 2 Kings 11:7-11 OT

  The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king. You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain.…

• 2 Chronicles 23:7 OT

  The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.”

• Ezra 9:1 OT

  Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the…

• Ezra 9:2 OT

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

• Ezra 10:23 OT

  Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

• Ezra 10:24 OT

  Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

• 1 Chronicles 12:26 OT

  Of the children of Levi: four thousand six hundred.

• Numbers 3:9 OT

  You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

• Jeremiah 33:18 OT

  The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”

• Ezekiel 44:10-14 OT

  “ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and…

• Malachi 3:3 OT

  and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

• Zechariah 12:10-13 OT

  I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve…

• Revelation 7:7 NT

  of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,