The Ephod

6 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

The Emblem of the Priestly office

Hosea 3:4 For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

1 Samuel 2:18 Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD — a boy wearing a linen ephod.
2 Samuel 6:14 And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,

1 Samuel 22:18 So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:18 Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD — a boy wearing a linen ephod.
2 Samuel 6:14 And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,

1 Samuel 2:28 And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the food offerings of …
1 Samuel 14:3 including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.