Isaiah 66:21

Some of these I will even choose as priests and Levites—says Yahweh. 1

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In The King James Version

And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.

In Context

20They will bring back all your brothers out of all the nations, as an offering to Yahweh. They will come on horses, and in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem—says Yahweh. For the people of Israel will bring a grain offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh. 1

22For just as the new heavens and the new earth that I will make 1 will remain before me—this is Yahweh's declaration—so your descendants will remain, and your name will remain. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 61:6You will be called the priests of Yahweh; they will call you servants of our God. 1 You will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their riches. 1

Hebrews 7:12For when the priesthood is changed, the law must also be changed.

1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's possession, so that you would announce the wonderful actions of the one who called you out from darkness into his marvelous light. 1

Revelation 5:10You made them a kingdom and priests to serve our God, 2 and they will reign on the earth.”

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 66:16-24

Divine Judgment; Judgment and Mercy; The Enlargement of the Church. ( b. c. 706.) 15 For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many. 17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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