From the priests: Jedaiah; Jehoiarib; Jakin;

(But some of the priests mixed the spices.)

After him the priests worked, men of the nearby district.

From the priests: Jedaiah son of Joiarib, Jakin,

“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

Zadok and Abiathar the priests will be there with you. ¹  Everything you hear in the king’s palace ²  you must tell Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

The priests left the holy place. ¹  All the priests who participated had consecrated themselves, no matter which division they represented. ² 

Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving ¹  at the priests, a skin disease ²  appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.

The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, ¹  and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues ²  the priests, and for themselves.

So Joshua instructed the priests, “Come up from the Jordan!”

Bright and early the next morning Joshua had the priests pick up the ark of the Lord. ¹ 

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

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.

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

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed ¹  priests, whom he consecrated ²  to minister as priests. ³