Quotes about Priests
Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
— Joel 1:9
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
— Joel 1:13
“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—
— Zephaniah 1:4
Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
— Zephaniah 3:4
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling.
— Haggai 2:11
If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’” “No,” replied the priests.
— Haggai 2:12
So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.
— Haggai 2:13
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
— Zechariah 7:3
“And now this decree is for you, O priests:
— Malachi 2:1
And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
— Matthew 2:4
He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.
— Matthew 12:4
Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
— Matthew 12:5