Torrey's Topical Index
Priests
First notice of persons acting as—Ge
4:3,4
During patriarchal age heads of families acted as—Ge
8:20; 12:8; 35:7
After the exodus young men (first-born) deputed to act as—Ex
24:5; 19:22
The sons of Aaron appointed as, by perpetual statute—Ex
29:9; 40:15
All except seed of Aaron excluded from being—Nu
3:10; 16:40; 18:7
Sanctified by God for the office—Ex
29:44
Publicly consecrated—Ex
28:3; Nu
3:3
CEREMONIES AT CONSECRATION OF
Required to remain in the tabernacle seven days after consecration—Le
8:33-36
No blemished or defective persons could be consecrated—Le
21:17-23
Required to prove their genealogy before they exercised the office—Ezr
2:62; Ne
7:64
GARMENTS OF
Required to wash in the brazen laver before they performed their services—Ex
30:18-21
SERVICES OF
- Keeping the charge of the tabernacle
- —Nu 18:1,5,7
- Covering the sacred things of the sanctuary before removal
- —Nu 4:5-15
- Offering sacrifices
- —Le 1:1-6:30; 2Ch 29:34; 35:11
- Lighting and trimming the lamps of the sanctuary
- —Ex 27:20,21; Le 24:3,4
- Keeping the sacred fire always burning on the altar
- —Le 6:12,13
- Burning incense
- —Ex 20:7,8; Lu 1:9
- Placing and removing show-bread
- —Le 24:5-9
- Offering first fruits
- —Le 23:10,11; De 26:3,4
- Blessing the people
- —Nu 6:23-27
- Purifying the unclean
- —Le 15:30,31
- Deciding in cases of jealousy
- —Nu 5:14,15
- Deciding in cases of leprosy
- —Le 13:2-59; 14:34-45
- Judging in cases of controversy
- —De 17:8-13; 21:5
- Teaching the law
- —De 33:8,10; Mal 2:7
- Blowing the trumpets on various occasions
- —Nu 10:1-10; Jos 6:3,4
- Carrying the ark
- —Jos 3:6,17; 6:12
- Encouraging the people when they went to war
- —De 20:1-4
- Valuing things devoted
- —Le 27:8
Were to live by the altar as they had no inheritance—De
18:1,2; 1Co
9:13
REVENUES OF
- Tenth of the tithes paid to the Levites
- —Nu 18:26,28; Ne 10:37,38; Heb 7:5
- First-fruits
- —Nu 18:8,12,13; De 18:4
- Redemption-money of the first-born
- —Nu 3:48,51; 18:15,16
- First-born of animals or their substitutes
- —Nu 18:17,18; Ex 13:12,13
- First of the wool of sheep
- —De 18:4
- Show-bread after its removal
- —Le 24:9; 1Sa 21:4-6; Mt 12:4
- Part of all sacrifices
- —Le 7:6-10,31,34; Nu 6:19,20; 18:8-11; De 18:3
- All devoted things
- —Nu 18:14
- All restitutions when the owner could not be found
- —Nu 5:8
- A fixed portion of the spoil taken in war
- —Nu 31:29,41
Thirteen of the Levitical cities given to, for residence—1Ch
6:57-60; Nu
35:1-8
Might purchase and hold other lands in possession—1Ki
2:26; Jer
32:8,9
SPECIAL LAWS RESPECTING
- Not to marry divorced or improper persons
- —Le 21:7
- Not to defile themselves for the dead except the nearest of
- kin—Le 21:1-6
- Not to drink wine, &c while attending in the tabernacle
- —Le 10:9; Eze 44:21
- Not to defile themselves by eating what died or was torn
- —Le 22:8
- While unclean could not perform any service
- —Le 22:1,2; Nu 19:6,7
- While unclean could not eat of the holy things
- —Le 22:3-7
- No sojourner or hired servant to eat of their portion
- —Le 22:10
- All bought and home-born servants to eat of their portion
- —Le 22:11
- Children of, married to strangers, not to eat of their
- portion—Le 22:12
- Restitution to be made to, by persons ignorantly eating of
- their holy things—Le 22:14-16
Divided by David into twenty-four courses—1Ch
24:1-19; 2Ch
8:14; 35:4,5
The four courses which returned from Babylon subdivided into 24—Ezr
2:36-39; Lu
1:5
Each course of, had its president or chief—1Ch
24:6,31; 2Ch
36:14
Services of, divided by lot—Lu
1:9
Punishment for invading the office of—Nu
16:1-35; 18:7; 2Ch
26:16-21
On special occasions persons not of Aaron's family acted as—Jud
6:24-27; 1Sa
7:9; 1Ki
18:33
WERE SOMETIMES
- Greedy
- —1Sa 2:13-17
- Drunken
- —Isa 28:7
- Profane and wicked
- —1Sa 2:22-24
- Unjust
- —Jer 6:13
- Corrupters of the law
- —Isa 28:7; Mal 2:8
- Slow to sanctify, themselves for God's services
- —2Ch 29:34
Generally participated in punishment of the people—Jer
14:18; La
2:20
Made of the lowest of the people by Jeroboam and others—1Ki
12:21; 2Ki
17:32
Services of, ineffectual for removing sin—Heb
7:11; 10:11
ILLUSTRATIVE OF