Luke 1:8

Then it happened that, when he was exercising the priesthood before God, in the order of his section,

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In The King James Version

And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,

In Context

7And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both had become advanced in years.

9according to the custom of the priesthood, the lot fell so that he would offer incense, entering into the temple of the Lord.

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Cross References

Exodus 28:41And with all these you shall vest your brother Aaron, and his sons with him. And you shall consecrate all their hands, and you shall sanctify them, so that they may exercise the priesthood for me.

Exodus 29:9Aaron, certainly, as well as his sons. And you shall impose headdresses upon them. And they shall be priests to me by a perpetual ordinance. After you have initiated their hands,

Exodus 30:30You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and you shall sanctify them, so that they may exercise the priesthood for me.

1 Chronicles 24:2But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and without children. And so Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priestly office.

2 Chronicles 8:14And he appointed, in accord with the plan of his father David, the offices of the priests in their ministries; and those of the Levites, in their orders, so that they might praise and minister before the priests according to the ritual of each day; and the porters, in their divisions, from gate to gate. For so had David, the man of God, instructed.

2 Chronicles 31:2Then Hezekiah appointed the companies of the priests and Levites by their divisions, each man in his proper office, certainly as much for the priests as for the Levites, for the sake of holocausts and peace offerings, so that they might minister and confess and sing, at the gates of the camp of the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Luke 1:6-26

The Appearance of an Angel to Zacharias; The Birth of John Foretold; The Unbelief of Zacharias. 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judæa, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. 8 And it came to… Read the whole commentary →

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