Deuteronomy 17:12
12The man who aacts presumptuously by not obeying the priest bwho stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So cyou shall purge the evil from Israel.Deuteronomy 18:5
5For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes dto stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.Deuteronomy 18:7
7and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, elike all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord,Judges 20:28
28and fPhinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, gministered before it in those days), saying, “Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?” And the Lord said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.”1 Kings 17:1
Elijah Predicts a Drought
1Now Elijah the Tishbite, of hTishbe ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers
in Gilead, said to Ahab, j“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, kbefore whom I stand, lthere shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” Psalms 134:1
Come, Bless the Lord
A Song of mAscents.
1 Come, bless the Lord, all you nservants of the Lord,who ostand pby night in the house of the Lord!
Psalms 135:2
2who qstand in the house of the Lord,in rthe courts of the house of our God!
Ezekiel 44:15-16
Rules for Levitical Priests
15“But sthe Levitical priests, tthe sons of Zadok, who kept uthe charge of my sanctuary vwhen the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me wto minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me xthe fat and the blood, declares the Lord God. 16They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach ymy table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
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