Quotes About Sacredness

For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.

That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.

Shallum son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives from the Korahites were assigned to guard the thresholds of the Tent, just as their fathers had been assigned to guard the entrance to the dwelling of the LORD.

They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they were responsible for guarding it and opening it every morning.

Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaronís beard over the collar of his robes.

The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.

For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—

Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.

For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.í

They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.

When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.

“But you profane it when you say, ëThe table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.í

You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?

and the two will become one flesh.í So they are no longer two, but one flesh.