Deuteronomy 12:19
Take heed to yourself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you live upon the earth.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 11:13And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
Nehemiah 10:34And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 12:6-32
Where Sacrifices Must Be Offered; Ceremonial Observances; Cautions Against Idolatrous Rites. ( b. c. 1451.) 5 But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 7 And there ye… Read the whole commentary →