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Nave Topical Bible
• Priest
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Scofield Reference Index
• High Priest
Thompson Chain Reference
• Priests
• High Priests
• High Priest, Christ As
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The Topic Concordance
• Priests
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Priests; Job: & Levites
• Paul; Before the Priest: & Roman Gov..., Sanhedrin
• Job; As Priest, Years
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Priests
• High Priest, the
• Christ, the High Priest
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Priest
American Tract Society
• Priest
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Priest
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Priest, Priesthood
• Priest, Christ As
• High Priest
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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Priest
Chabad Knowledge Base
• High Priest
• Eli, the High Priest
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Priest
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Priest
• High Priest
• Chief Priest
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Priest
• High Priest
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Priests: Superstitious Reverence of
• Bible: Why Priests Withhold It
Holman Bible Dictionary
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• Courts of the Gentiles, Women, Israelites, Priests
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Priests and Levites
• Priest
• High Priest
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Priest (2)
• Priest
• High Priest (2)
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Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Theognostus, a Priest of Alexandria
• Sergius, a Monophysite Priest
• Salvianus, Priest of Marseilles
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King James Dictionary
• Priest
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Priest, Priesthood
• High Priest
• Breastplate, High Priest's
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Society of the Priests of Mercy of the Immaculate
• Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice
• Priests, Marian
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Priest
• High Priest
• Chief Priest
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Priest
• High Priest
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Priesthood, Priest's Office
• Priest
• Priest; Priesthood
Wilson's Bible Types
• Priest
Webster Dictionary
• Priesting
• Priest-Ridden
• Priest
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Priest
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Arnobius (Priest)
• Francois Emmanuel Guignard Saint Priest
• John Ball (Priest)
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Breastplate of the High Priest
• Christ As King, Priest, Prophet
• Course of Priests and Levites
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Breastplate of the High Priest
• High-Priest
• Priest
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Bernard (Surnamed Syglerius), Priest of Monte Cassino
• Bernard Priest and Sacristan of Compostella
• Calvarists, or Missionary Priests of Calvary
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Priest
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Assistant Priest
• Confraternities of Priests
• Congregation of Priests of the Mission
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Anan, Son of Ananias, the High Priest
• Breastplate of the High Priest
• High Priest
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Lexicons
• ܟ݁ܰܗܶܢ
• ܟ݁ܳܗܢܳܐ
• ܟ݁ܽܘܡܪܳܐ
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Priest
• Ἁνανίας
• ἀρχιερατικός
• ἀρχιερεύς
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• בַּד , בַּד
• כָּהַן
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• First notice of persons acting as
  Genesis 4:3,4

• During patriarchal age heads of families acted as
  Genesis 8:20; 12:8; 35:7

• After the exodus young men (first-born) deputed to act as
  Exodus 24:5; 19:22

• The sons of Aaron appointed as, by perpetual statute
  Exodus 29:9; 40:15

• All except seed of Aaron excluded from being
  Numbers 3:10; 16:40; 18:7

• Sanctified by God for the office
  Exodus 29:44

• Publicly consecrated
  Exodus 28:3; Numbers 3:3

• CEREMONIES AT CONSECRATION OF
  • Washing in water
    Exodus 29:4; Leviticus 8:6
  • Clothing with the holy garments
    Exodus 29:8,9; 40:14; Leviticus 8:13
  • Anointing with oil
    Exodus 30:30; 40:13
  • Offering sacrifices
    Exodus 29:10-19; Leviticus 8:14-23
  • Purification by blood of the consecration ram
    Exodus 29:20,21; Leviticus 8:23,24
  • Placing in their hands the wave-offering
    Exodus 29:22-24; Leviticus 8:25-27
  • Partaking of the sacrifices of consecration
    Exodus 29:31-33; Leviticus 8:31,32
  • Lasted seven days
    Exodus 29:35-37; Leviticus 8:33

• Required to remain in the tabernacle seven days after Consecration
  Leviticus 8:33-36

• No blemished or defective persons could be consecrated
  Leviticus 21:17-23

• Required to prove their genealogy before they exercised the Office
  Ezra 2:62; Nehemiah 7:64

• GARMENTS OF
  • The coat or tunic
    Exodus 28:40; 39:27
  • The girdle
    Exodus 28:40
  • The bonnet
    Exodus 28:40; 39:28
  • The linen breeches
    Exodus 28:42; 39:28
  • Worn at consecration
    Exodus 29:9; 40:15
  • Worn always while engaged in the service of the tabernacle
    Exodus 28:43; 39:41
  • Worn by the high priest on the day of atonement
    Leviticus 16:4
  • Purified by sprinkling of blood
    Exodus 29:21
  • Laid up in holy chambers
    Ezekiel 44:19
  • Often provided by the people
    Ezra 2:68,69; Nehemiah 7:70,72

• Required to wash in the brazen laver before they performed Their services
  Exodus 30:18-21

• SERVICES OF
  • Keeping the charge of the tabernacle
    Numbers 18:1,5,7
  • Covering the sacred things of the sanctuary before removal
    Numbers 4:5-15
  • Offering sacrifices
    Leviticus 1:1-6:30; 2 Chronicles 29:34; 35:11
  • Lighting and trimming the lamps of the sanctuary
    Exodus 27:20,21; Leviticus 24:3,4
  • Keeping the sacred fire always burning on the altar
    Leviticus 6:12,13
  • Burning incense
    Exodus 20:7,8; Luke 1:9
  • Placing and removing show-bread
    Leviticus 24:5-9
  • Offering first fruits
    Leviticus 23:10,11; Deuteronomy 26:3,4
  • Blessing the people
    Numbers 6:23-27
  • Purifying the unclean
    Leviticus 15:30,31
  • Deciding in cases of jealousy
    Numbers 5:14,15
  • Deciding in cases of leprosy
    Leviticus 13:2-59; 14:34-45
  • Judging in cases of controversy
    Deuteronomy 17:8-13; 21:5
  • Teaching the law
    Deuteronomy 33:8,10; Malachi 2:7
  • Blowing the trumpets on various occasions
    Numbers 10:1-10; Joshua 6:3,4
  • Carrying the ark
    Joshua 3:6,17; 6:12
  • Encouraging the people when they went to war
    Deuteronomy 20:1-4
  • Valuing things devoted
    Leviticus 27:8

• Were to live by the altar as they had no inheritance
  Deuteronomy 18:1,2; 1 Corinthians 9:13

• REVENUES OF
  • Tenth of the tithes paid to the Levites
    Numbers 18:26,28; Nehemiah 10:37,38; Hebrews 7:5
  • First-fruits
    Numbers 18:8,12,13; Deuteronomy 18:4
  • Redemption-money of the first-born
    Numbers 3:48,51; 18:15,16
  • First-born of animals or their substitutes
    Numbers 18:17,18; Exodus 13:12,13
  • First of the wool of sheep
    Deuteronomy 18:4
  • Show-bread after its removal
    Leviticus 24:9; 1 Samuel 21:4-6; Matthew 12:4
  • Part of all sacrifices
    Leviticus 7:6-10,31,34; Numbers 6:19,20; 18:8-11; Deuteronomy 18:3
  • All devoted things
    Numbers 18:14
  • All restitutions when the owner could not be found
    Numbers 5:8
  • A fixed portion of the spoil taken in war
    Numbers 31:29,41

• Thirteen of the Levitical cities given to, for residence
  1 Chronicles 6:57-60; Numbers 35:1-8

• Might purchase and hold other lands in possession
  1 Kings 2:26; Jeremiah 32:8,9

• SPECIAL LAWS RESPECTING
  • Not to marry divorced or improper persons
    Leviticus 21:7
  • Not to defile themselves for the dead except the nearest of Kin
    Leviticus 21:1-6
  • Not to drink wine, &c while attending in the tabernacle
    Leviticus 10:9; Ezekiel 44:21
  • Not to defile themselves by eating what died or was torn
    Leviticus 22:8
  • While unclean could not perform any service
    Leviticus 22:1,2; Numbers 19:6,7
  • While unclean could not eat of the holy things
    Leviticus 22:3-7
  • No sojourner or hired servant to eat of their portion
    Leviticus 22:10
  • All bought and home-born servants to eat of their portion
    Leviticus 22:11
  • Children of, married to strangers, not to eat of their Portion
    Leviticus 22:12
  • Restitution to be made to, by persons ignorantly eating of Their holy things
    Leviticus 22:14-16

• Divided by David into twenty-four courses
  1 Chronicles 24:1-19; 2 Chronicles 8:14; 35:4,5

• The four courses which returned from Babylon subdivided into 24
  Ezra 2:36-39; Luke 1:5

• Each course of, had its president or chief
  1 Chronicles 24:6,31; 2 Chronicles 36:14

• Services of, divided by lot
  Luke 1:9

• Punishment for invading the office of
  Numbers 16:1-35; 18:7; 2 Chronicles 26:16-21

• On special occasions persons not of Aaron's family acted as
  Judges 6:24-27; 1 Samuel 7:9; 1 Kings 18:33

• WERE SOMETIMES
  • Greedy
    1 Samuel 2:13-17
  • Drunken
    Isaiah 28:7
  • Profane and wicked
    1 Samuel 2:22-24
  • Unjust
    Jeremiah 6:13
  • Corrupters of the law
    Isaiah 28:7; Malachi 2:8
  • Slow to sanctify, themselves for God's services
    2 Chronicles 29:34

• Generally participated in punishment of the people
  Jeremiah 14:18; Lamentations 2:20

• Made of the lowest of the people by Jeroboam and others
  1 Kings 12:21; 2 Kings 17:32

• Services of, ineffectual for removing sin
  Hebrews 7:11; 10:11

• ILLUSTRATIVE OF
  • Christ
    Hebrews 10:11,12
  • Saints
    Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:9