Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut. Ezk 43:1Ezk 40:17Ezk 40:6Ezk 42:142Ch 20:52Ch 33:52Ch 4:9Act 21:28-30 The LORD said to me, “This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut. Exo 24:10Ezk 43:2-4Isa 6:1-5 As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the LORD. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way.” Ezk 46:2Ezk 37:251Co 10:18-33Ezk 34:24Gen 31:54Ezk 40:9Ezk 46:8-102Ch 34:31
Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the LORD’s glory filled the LORD’s house; so I fell on my face. Ezk 1:28Ezk 3:23Rev 1:17Ezk 40:20Ezk 43:3-5Ezk 40:40Hag 2:7Isa 6:3-4
The LORD said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the LORD’s house and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. Ezk 40:4Ezk 43:10-11Deu 12:32Deu 32:461Ch 22:192Ch 11:16Act 8:36Dan 10:12 You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations, 1Pe 4:3Ezk 3:9Ezk 45:9Ezk 2:5-8Ezk 3:26-27 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood; and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations. Jer 9:26Lev 22:25Jer 4:4Ezk 44:9Gen 17:14Lev 26:41Act 21:28Act 7:51 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.” 1Ch 23:321Ti 6:132Ti 4:1Act 7:53Ezk 40:45-46Ezk 44:14Ezk 44:16Ezr 8:24-30 The Lord GOD says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel. Jol 3:17Zec 14:21Ezk 44:7Jhn 3:3-5Mrk 16:16Psa 50:16Psa 93:5Tit 1:5-9
“‘“But the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity. Ezk 48:11Ezk 22:261Ti 5:222Ki 23:8-9Ezk 44:152Ch 29:4-5Gen 4:13Isa 53:11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. Num 16:92Ch 29:341Ch 26:1-192Ch 30:17Ezk 40:45Ezk 44:14Num 18:62Ch 35:10-11 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord GOD, “and they will bear their iniquity. 2Ki 16:10-16Ezk 14:3-4Psa 106:26Ezk 20:15Ezk 20:23Ezk 44:101Sa 2:29-30Amo 8:7 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed. Num 18:32Ki 23:9Ezk 16:61Ezk 32:20Ezk 36:7 Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service and for all that will be done therein. 1Ch 23:28-32Num 18:4
“‘“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord GOD. Deu 10:8Ezk 48:11Ezk 40:46Ezk 43:19Ezk 44:71Sa 2:352Ti 2:2Lev 3:16-17 “They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction. Ezk 41:22Mal 1:12Mal 1:7Num 18:7-8Deu 33:8-10Num 18:5Rev 1:6
“‘“It will be that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. Rev 19:8Exo 28:43Exo 39:27-29Exo 28:39-40Lev 16:4Rev 4:4 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat. 1Co 11:4-101Co 14:40Exo 28:40-43Exo 39:28Isa 3:20Lev 16:4 When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments. Ezk 46:20Lev 6:27Lev 6:10-11Exo 29:37Exo 30:29Mat 23:17-191Co 3:5-6Ezk 42:13-14
“‘“They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads. 1Co 11:14Deu 14:1Lev 21:5-24Num 6:5 None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court. Lev 10:9Tit 1:7-81Ti 3:81Ti 5:23Luk 1:15 They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. Lev 21:7Lev 21:13-141Ti 3:11-121Ti 3:21Ti 3:4-5Deu 24:1-4Tit 1:6 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. Ezk 22:26Lev 10:10-112Ti 2:24-25Hos 4:6Mal 2:6-9Zep 3:4Deu 33:10Hag 2:11-13
“‘“In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy. 1Ch 23:42Ch 19:8-10Ezk 22:261Ti 3:15Deu 17:8-13Ezr 2:63Isa 58:13-14Lev 23:1-44
“‘“They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves. Lev 22:4Lev 21:1-6Luk 9:59-60Mat 8:21-221Th 4:13-152Co 5:16 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. Heb 9:13-14Num 19:11-14Num 6:10-21 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the Lord GOD. Num 6:9-11Ezk 44:17Heb 7:26-28Lev 4:3-35Lev 8:14-36
“‘They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession. Jos 13:33Num 18:20Deu 18:1-2Deu 10:9Ezk 45:41Pe 5:2-4Ezk 48:9-11Jos 13:14 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. Num 18:14Lev 27:21Lev 27:28Lev 6:14-18Lev 6:26Lev 6:29Lev 7:61Co 9:13-14 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house. Neh 10:35-372Ch 31:10Deu 18:4Num 15:19-21Num 18:12-18Deu 26:10-15Exo 13:12Exo 13:2 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself or is torn, whether it is bird or animal. Lev 22:8Exo 22:31Deu 14:211Co 8:13Ezk 4:14Lev 17:15Rom 14:20