According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
1 Samuel
HistoryHer prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
1 Kings
HistoryO LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsGod that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Acts
History / LukeThen he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
1 Kings
HistoryHe turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Psalms
PoetryAnd now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsSaying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Hebrews
General EpistlesThen Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
Revelation
ApocalypticYet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?