Quotes About Sacred

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

The Commander of the LORDís army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.

Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests took the ark of the LORD.

For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury.”

At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,

All the leaders answered, “We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.

To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The offerings made by fire to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, just as He had promised them.

Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth—

So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,

In all, thirteen cities, together with their pasturelands, were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

So they set up for themselves Micahís graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.

The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,

What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”

There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.

Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORDís offering with contempt.

The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

“The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”

carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.

So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” “It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel.

So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”

When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines seven months,