Luke 1:9

according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of Yahweh and burn incense (as the Cohen Gadol ·High Priest· on Yom Kippur ·Day of Atonement·). On the seventh month Ethanim ·Ever-flowing durable stream (in Hebrew), 7· or Tishrei ·[Beginning (in Babylonian)]· on the 10th day).

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In The King James Version

According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

In Context

8Now while he served in the priest’s office before God in the order of his priestly division,

10All the people were outside, praying, at the time of the incense burning, + 1:10 Context: This ritual of burning incense to fill the Most Holy Place with smoke before offering the blood on the Mercy Seat is commanded by God in (Lev 16:2-3, 16:12-14). This, in the greater context of making atonement for the entire nation on Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]. See (Lev 16:11-17).

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Cross References

Exodus 30:7+ 30:7. Ex 30:7-8 (#2b.102): T. A Cohen ·Priest· shall offer incense twice daily / R. To burn incense every day Aaron [Light-bringer] shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the menorah ·lamp· candles, he shall burn it. (Maftir ·Conclusion·)

Numbers 16:40to be a memorial to the children of Israel [God prevails], to the end that no stranger, who is not of the offspring of Aaron [Light-bringer], would come near to burn incense before Adonai, that he be not as Korach [Bald one, Frost], + 16:40. Quoted in Jude 1:11 (see also context Num 16:21-24) and as his company; as Adonai spoke to him by Moses [Drawn out].

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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