When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests lifted the ark.

So Uriah the priest did exactly as ¹  King Ahaz ordered.

David ¹  assembled all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.

Jeroboam ¹  appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers ²  and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made. ³ 

He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side.

When Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps,

He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.

They slaughtered the Passover lambs and the priests splashed the blood, ¹  while the Levites skinned the animals.

Above the Horse Gate the priests worked, each in front of his house.

Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

מ (Mem) But it happened ¹  due to the sins of her prophets ²  and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

Then the priest will command that the house be cleared ¹  before the priest enters to examine the infection ²  so that everything in the house ³  does not become unclean, ⁴  and afterward ⁵  the priest will enter to examine the house.

They said to him, “Shut up! Put your hand over your mouth and come with us! You can be our adviser ¹  and priest. Wouldn’t it be better to be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for just one man’s family?” ² 

But you banished ¹  the Lord’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods! ² 

But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, ¹  so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.) ² 

Afterward they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering burnt sacrifices and fat portions until evening. The Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

Melchizedek king of Salem ¹  brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.) ² 

Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw ¹  water ²  and fill ³  the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

Let the priests also, who approach the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break through ¹  against them.”