Quotes About Priesthood

Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eliís two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.

Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”í”

So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.

Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king;

Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.

So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.

The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

Ahitub was the father of Zadok, Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,

Ahitub was the father of Zadok, Zadok was the father of Shallum,

The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

But Aaron and his sons did all the work of the Most Holy Place. They presented the offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

These were the descendants of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

Zadok his son, and Ahimaaz his son.

Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:

Azariah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of Godís temple;

the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,

Now these were the remaining descendants of Levi: From the sons of Amram: Shubael; from the sons of Shubael: Jehdeiah.

As for Rehabiah, from his sons: The first was Isshiah.

From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

over Levi was Hashabiah son of Kemuel; over Aaron was Zadok;

And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.