BSN Glossary: Things: PRIEST

BSN Glossary: Things

Compare with prophet

  • Related words:
    • priest and law – Heb 7:12; Jer 2:8; Ezek 22:26; Hos 4:6; Zeph 3:4
    • as the law was to a priest, so a vision was to a prophet – Ezek 7:26
    • priests and Levites – [priests levites] 77x (NT 1x; OT 76x)
      • see also Lk 10:29-37 (the parable of The Good Samaritan)
      • see also Ps 135:19-20, in which the mention of Aaron (firstborn of all priests and Levi (firstborn of all Levites) are allusions to priests and Levites.
      • Keep in mind that the priests were a subset of the Levites because Aaron was a descendant of Levi.
    • priest and people – Is 24:2; Jer 31:14; Hos 4:9; Joel 2:17; see also Jehoiada (who was a priest) in 2 Kg 11:17; 2 Chr 23:16
  • Priests are called ministers – Joel 1:9,13; 2:17
  • The priests were assigned stations – 2 Chr 35:2, 10
  • Priests taught the people – 1 Sam 12:23; 2 King 17:27-28; 2 Chr 15:3; 35:3; Ezra 7:10-11
  • Duties of priests per the Lord’s word directly to Aaron in Lev 10:8-11 right after his sons Nadab and Abihu perished: “…to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean, and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them through Moses.”
  • ephod – a priestly garment

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