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LEVITES[edit | edit source]
Thompson Chain Reference (1908)[edit | edit source]
General References
- Exodus 32:26, Numbers 1:50, Numbers 3:6, Numbers 3:39, Numbers 8:18, Numbers 8:24, Numbers 18:3, Numbers 26:57, Numbers 35:2, Deuteronomy 12:19, Deuteronomy 14:27, 1 Chronicles 23:27, 2 Chronicles 11:13, 2 Chronicles 23:2, 2 Chronicles 29:34, Luke 10:32
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Set apart as ministers of religion
Substituted in the place of the firstborn children
Religious zeal of
Consecration of
Gershonites and their duties
Of the Amramites, Aaron and his family were set apart as priests
- Exodus 28:1
- Exodus 29:9
- Numbers 3:38
- Numbers 17:1-4
- Numbers 17:8
- Numbers 18:1
- Numbers 3:27-32
- Numbers 4:2-15
- Numbers 3:32
- 1 Chronicles 9:20
The Merarites
- Numbers 3:20
- Numbers 3:33-37
- Numbers 4:31-33
- Numbers 7:8
- Numbers 10:17
- 1 Chronicles 6:19
- 1 Chronicles 6:29
- 1 Chronicles 6:30
- 1 Chronicles 23:21-23
- Numbers 4:33
Place of, in encampments and the march
Cities assigned to, in the land of Canaan
Lodged in the chambers of the temple
Resided also in villages outside of Jerusalem
Age of
- Numbers 4:3
- Numbers 4:30
- Numbers 4:47
- Numbers 8:23-26
- 1 Chronicles 23:3
- 1 Chronicles 23:24
- 1 Chronicles 23:27
- Ezra 3:8
- Numbers 4:3
- Numbers 4:47
Functions of
- Numbers 1:50-53
- Numbers 3:6-9
- Numbers 3:21-37
- Numbers 4:1-15
- Numbers 4:17-49
- Numbers 8:19
- Numbers 18:3-6
- 1 Chronicles 9:27-29
- 1 Chronicles 23:2-32
- Ezra 8:24-34
Carried the ark of the covenant
Ministered in the presence of the ark of the covenant
Custodians and administrators of the tithes and other offerings
- 1 Chronicles 9:26-29
- 1 Chronicles 26:28
- 1 Chronicles 29:8
- 2 Chronicles 24:5
- 2 Chronicles 24:11
- 2 Chronicles 31:11-19
- 2 Chronicles 34:9
- Ezra 8:29
- Ezra 8:30
- Ezra 8:33
- Nehemiah 12:44
Prepared the shewbread
Assisted the priests in preparing the sacrifice
Killed the Passover lambs for the people of the captivity
Teachers of the law
- Deuteronomy 33:10
- 2 Chronicles 17:8
- 2 Chronicles 17:9
- 2 Chronicles 30:22
- 2 Chronicles 35:3
- Nehemiah 8:7-13
- Malachi 2:6
- Malachi 2:7
Were judges
See SCRIBES
Were overseers in building and the repairs of the temple
Supervised weights and measures as standards of doing business
The list of those who returned from captivity
Sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
eight cities with suburbs were assigned to them
- Numbers 35:2-8
- Numbers 26:62
- Deuteronomy 10:9
- Deuteronomy 12:12
- Deuteronomy 12:18
- Deuteronomy 12:19
- Deuteronomy 14:27-29
- Deuteronomy 18:1-8
- Joshua 13:14
- Joshua 14:3
- Joshua 18:7
- 1 Chronicles 6:54-81
- 1 Chronicles 13:2
- 2 Chronicles 23:2
- Ezekiel 34:1-5
Assigned to, by families
Suburbs of their cities were inalienable for debt
Tithes and other offerings
- Numbers 18:24
- Numbers 18:26-32
- Deuteronomy 18:1-8
- Deuteronomy 26:11-13
- Joshua 13:14
- Nehemiah 10:38
- Nehemiah 10:39
- Nehemiah 12:44
- Nehemiah 12:47
First fruits
The plunder of war, including captives
Tithes withheld from
Pensioned
Owned lands
Land allotted to, by Ezekiel
Enrollment of, at Mount Sinai
- Numbers 1:47-49
- Numbers 2:33
- Numbers 3:14-39
- Numbers 4:2
- Numbers 4:3
- Numbers 26:57-62
- 1 Chronicles 23:3-5
Degraded from the Levitical office by Jeroboam
Loyal to the ruler
Intermarried with Canaanites
Exempt from enrollment for military duty
Subordinate to the sons of Aaron
Prophecies concerning
Of their repentance of the crucifixion of the Messiah
John’s vision concerning