Löydetty 818 Tulokset: High Priest
Solomon had made a bronze pedestal and had placed it in the middle of the court; it was 7 feet long, 7 feet wide and 7 feet high. Solomon mounted it, and knelt down on it in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel; he stretched out his hands to heaven. (2 Chronicles 6, 13)
and had appointed priests of his own to serve at the High places to worship the goats and the bullcalves he had made. (2 Chronicles 11, 15)
Have you not driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, to make priests of your own like the peoples of foreign countries? Anyone who comes with a bull and seven rams can ask to be consecrated and become priest of what is no god at all! (2 Chronicles 13, 9)
He removed the altars of foreign worship and the High places. He broke down the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah's trunks. (2 Chronicles 14, 2)
He removed the High places and the altars of incense in every town of Judah. The kingdom was at peace under his rule. (2 Chronicles 14, 4)
For a long time Israel will be without the true God, and without priest to teach the Law, (2 Chronicles 15, 3)
King Asa took from his grandmother Maacah her title of queen mother, because she had made a hideous idol Asherah. Asa cut down the idol, and burned it in the wadi Kidron. Though the High places were not abolished in Israel, the heart of Asa was blameless all his life. He deposited the offerings dedicated by his father and his own offerings too, in the house of God, silver and gold and furnishings. (2 Chronicles 15, 16)
He took pride in serving Yahweh and destroyed all the High places and Asherah's trunks in Judah. (2 Chronicles 17, 6)
Amariah, the chief priest, will have final authority over you in all religious matters, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, governor of Judah, in all matters affecting the king. The Levites will serve as your scribes. Be courageous, carry out these instructions, and Yahweh will be there to bring success." (2 Chronicles 19, 11)
The High places however, were not destroyed; the people had still not turned their hearts to the God of their ancestors. (2 Chronicles 20, 33)
He also set up High places in the highlands of Judah and caused the people living in Jerusalem and Judah to sin against Yahweh. (2 Chronicles 21, 11)
But Jehosheba, daughter of king Joram, secretly rescued Joash, her brother's son, from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and put him with his nurse in the sleeping quarters; in this way Jehosheba the daughter of King Joram and wife of Jehoiada the priest (a sister, too, of Ahaziah) hid him from Athaliah, and prevented her from killing him. (2 Chronicles 22, 11)
