Lexicon :: Strong's H6942 - qāḏaš

However, since there were not enough priests, they weren’t able to skin all the burnt offerings, so their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests consecrated themselves. For the Levites were more conscientious[fn] to consecrate themselves than the priests were.

because they were not able to observe it at the appropriate time. Not enough of the priests had consecrated themselves, and the people hadn’t been gathered together in Jerusalem.

As for the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought a tenth of the herds and flocks, and a tenth of the dedicated things that were consecrated to the LORD their God. They gathered them into large piles.

“Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your brothers to carry out the word of the LORD through Moses.”

All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the LORD’s temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

After that, they offered the regular burnt offering and the offerings for the beginning of each month[fn] and for all the LORD’s appointed holy occasions, as well as the freewill offerings brought to[fn] the LORD.

The high priest Eliashib and his fellow priests began rebuilding the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated it.

So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for Aaron’s descendants.

Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the city gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.

Remember me for this also, my God, and look on me with compassion according to the abundance of your faithful love.

Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for[fn] all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

But the LORD of Armies is exalted by his justice,

and the holy God demonstrates his holiness through his righteousness.

You are to regard only the LORD of Armies as holy.

Only he should be feared;

only he should be held in awe.

I have commanded my consecrated ones;

yes, I have called my warriors,

who celebrate my triumph,

to execute my wrath.

For when he sees his children,

the work of my hands within his nation,

they will honor my name,

they will honor the Holy One of Jacob

and stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Your singing will be like that

on the night of a holy festival,

and your heart will rejoice

like one who walks to the music of a flute,

going up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the Rock of Israel.

“They say, ‘Keep to yourself,

don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you! ’

These practices are smoke in my nostrils,

a fire that burns all day long.

“Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves following their leader,[fn] eating meat from pigs, vermin,[fn] and rats, will perish together.”

This is the LORD’s declaration.

I chose you before I formed you in the womb;

I set you apart before you were born.

I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

“Set them apart for war against her;

rise up, let’s attack at noon.

Woe to us, for the day is passing;

the evening shadows grow long.

As for you, LORD, you know me; you see me.

You test whether my heart is with you.

Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughter

and set them apart for the day of killing.

“Do not carry a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your ancestors.

“I will set apart destroyers against you,

each with his weapons.

They will cut down the choicest of your cedars

and throw them into the fire.

Raise a signal flag in the land;

blow a ram’s horn among the nations;

set apart the nations against her.

Summon kingdoms against her —

Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.

Appoint a marshal against her;

bring up horses like a swarm[fn] of locusts.

So I will bring the most evil of nations

to take possession of their houses.

I will put an end to the pride of the strong,

and their sacred places will be profaned.

“I also gave them my Sabbaths to serve as a sign between me and them, so that they would know that I am the LORD who consecrates them.

“You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says:

Look! I am against you, Sidon,

and I will display my glory within you.

They will know that I am the LORD

when I execute judgments against her

and demonstrate my holiness through her.

“I will honor the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations ​— ​the name you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the LORD ​— ​this is the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight.

“When my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel.’ ”

“You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the last days, Gog, that I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me, when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight.

“When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the countries of their enemies, I will demonstrate my holiness through them in the sight of many nations.

“Before they go out to the outer court,[fn] to the people, they must take off the clothes they have been ministering in, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people through their clothes.

He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”

“It is for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.

Announce a sacred fast;

proclaim a solemn assembly!

Gather the elders

and all the residents of the land

at the house of the LORD your God,

and cry out to the LORD.

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion!

Announce a sacred fast;

proclaim a solemn assembly.

Proclaim this among the nations:

Prepare for holy war;

rouse the warriors;

let all the men of war advance and attack!