The High Priest
76 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
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- Assisted by a Deputy
- Consecrated to his office
- Duties of Appointing Priests to offices
- Duties of Bearing Before the Lord the Names of Israel for a Memorial
- Duties of Blessing the People
- Duties of Consecrating the Levites
- Duties of Enquiring of God by Urim and Thummim
- Duties of Lighting the Sacred Lamps
- Duties of Making Atonement in the Most Holy Place Once a Year
- Duties of Offering Gifts and Sacrifices
- Duties of Presiding in the Superior Court
- Duties of Taking Charge of Money Collected in the Sacred Treasury
- Duties of Taking the Census of the People
- Family of Eli Degraded from office of, for Bad Conduct
- Forbidden to Mourn for Any
- Inferior to Christ in Being Made Without an Oath
- Inferior to Christ in Being of the Order of Aaron
- Inferior to Christ in Entering Into Holiest Every Year
- Inferior to Christ in Needing to Make Atonement for his own Sins
- Inferior to Christ in not Being Able to Continue
- Inferior to Christ in Offering oftentimes the Same Sacrifices
- Made by Divine Wisdom Given to Bezaleel
- Needed to Sacrifice for Himself
- Next in Rank to the King
- Office of, Made Annual by the Romans
- Office of, Promised to the Posterity of Phinehas for his Zeal
- Often Exercised Chief Civil Power
- Sometimes Deposed by the Kings
- Sometimes Enabled to Prophesy
- Special Garments of Breastplate
- Special Garments of Broidered Coat
- Special Garments of Ephod with Its Curious Girdle
- Special Garments of Girdle
- Special Garments of Linen Mitre
- Special Garments of Plate or Crown of Gold
- Special Garments of Robe of the Ephod
- Specially Called of God
- The Deputy of Called the Second Priest
- The Deputy of had Oversight of the Levites
- The Deputy of had Oversight of the Tabernacle
- The office of, Hereditary
- To be Tender and Compassionate
- To Marry a Virgin of Aaron's Family
- Typified Christ in Alone Entering Into Most Holy Place
- Typified Christ in Bearing the Names of Israel Upon his Heart
- Typified Christ in Being Called of God
- Typified Christ in Being Liable to Temptation
- Typified Christ in Blessing
- Typified Christ in Compassion and Sympathy for the Weak and Ignorant
- Typified Christ in His Appointment
- Typified Christ in His Title
- Typified Christ in Holiness of office
- Typified Christ in Interceding
- Typified Christ in Making Atonement
- Typified Christ in Marrying a Virgin
- Typified Christ in Performing by Himself all the Services on Day of Atonement
- Typified Christ in Splendid Dress
- Wore the Ordinary Priest's Garments when Making Atonement In
- Worn at his Consecration
- Worn at his Consecration: Descended to his Successors
- Worn at his Consecration: Worn Seven Days After Consecration
Assisted by a Deputy
- 2 Samuel 15:24 Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had passed out of the city.
- Luke 3:2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
Consecrated to his office
- Exodus 40:13 And you are to clothe Aaron with the holy garments, anoint him, and consecrate him, so that he may serve Me as a priest.
- Leviticus 8:12 He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Duties of Appointing Priests to offices
- 1 Samuel 2:36 And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
Duties of Bearing Before the Lord the Names of Israel for a Memorial
- Exodus 28:12 Fasten both stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear their names on his two shoulders as a memorial before the LORD.
- Exodus 28:29 Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD.
Duties of Blessing the People
- Leviticus 9:22–23 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having made the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down. …
Duties of Consecrating the Levites
- Numbers 9:11–21 Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs; …
Duties of Enquiring of God by Urim and Thummim
- 1 Samuel 23:9–12 When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.” …
- 1 Samuel 30:7–8 Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him, …
Duties of Lighting the Sacred Lamps
- Exodus 30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come.
- Numbers 8:3 And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps facing toward the front of the lampstand, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Duties of Making Atonement in the Most Holy Place Once a Year
- Leviticus 16:1–34 Now the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of two of Aaron’s sons when they approached the presence of the LORD. …
- Hebrews 9:7 But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
Duties of Offering Gifts and Sacrifices
- Hebrews 5:1 Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
Duties of Presiding in the Superior Court
- Matthew 26:3 At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
- Matthew 26:57–62 Those who had arrested Jesus led Him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered. …
- Acts 5:21–28 At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin— the full assembly of the elders of Israel— and …
- Acts 23:1–5 Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.” …
Duties of Taking Charge of Money Collected in the Sacred Treasury
- 2 Kings 12:10 Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.
- 2 Kings 22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
Duties of Taking the Census of the People
- Numbers 1:3 You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions— everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.
Family of Eli Degraded from office of, for Bad Conduct
- 1 Samuel 2:27–36 Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house? …
Forbidden to Mourn for Any
- Leviticus 21:1–12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people, …
Inferior to Christ in Being Made Without an Oath
- Hebrews 7:20–22 And none of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath, …
Inferior to Christ in Being of the Order of Aaron
- Hebrews 6:20 where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
- Hebrews 7:11–17 Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood ( for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear — one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the …
- Hebrews 8:1–2 The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, …
- Hebrews 8:4–6 Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law. …
Inferior to Christ in Entering Into Holiest Every Year
- Hebrews 9:7 But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
- Hebrews 9:12 He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
- Hebrews 9:25 Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
Inferior to Christ in Needing to Make Atonement for his own Sins
- Hebrews 5:2–3 He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is subject to weakness. …
- Hebrews 7:26–28 Such a high priest truly befits us — One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. …
- Hebrews 9:7 But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
Inferior to Christ in not Being Able to Continue
- Hebrews 7:23–24 Now there have been many other priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office. …
Inferior to Christ in Offering oftentimes the Same Sacrifices
- Hebrews 9:25–26 Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. …
- Hebrews 9:28 so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
- Hebrews 10:11–12 Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. …
- Hebrews 10:14 because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
Made by Divine Wisdom Given to Bezaleel
- Exodus 28:3 You are to instruct all the skilled craftsmen, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, to make garments for Aaron’s consecration, so that he may serve Me as priest.
- Exodus 36:1 “So Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person are to carry out everything commanded by the LORD, who has given them skill and ability to know how to perform all the work of constructing the sanctuary.”
- Exodus 39:1 From the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn they made specially woven garments for ministry in the sanctuary, as well as the holy garments for Aaron, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Needed to Sacrifice for Himself
- Hebrews 5:1–3 Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. …
Next in Rank to the King
- Lamentations 2:6 He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
Office of, Made Annual by the Romans
- John 11:49–51 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! …
- Acts 4:6 along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.
Office of, Promised to the Posterity of Phinehas for his Zeal
- Numbers 25:12–13 Declare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace. …
Often Exercised Chief Civil Power
- 1 Samuel 4:18 As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
Sometimes Deposed by the Kings
- 1 Kings 2:27 So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
Sometimes Enabled to Prophesy
- John 11:49–52 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! …
Special Garments of Breastplate
- Exodus 28:15–29 You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen. …
Special Garments of Broidered Coat
- Exodus 28:4 These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that they may serve Me as priests.
- Exodus 28:39 You are to weave the tunic with fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion an embroidered sash.
Special Garments of Ephod with Its Curious Girdle
- Exodus 28:6–7 They are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. …
Special Garments of Girdle
- Exodus 28:4 These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that they may serve Me as priests.
- Exodus 28:39 You are to weave the tunic with fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion an embroidered sash.
Special Garments of Linen Mitre
- Exodus 28:4 These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that they may serve Me as priests.
- Exodus 28:39 You are to weave the tunic with fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion an embroidered sash.
Special Garments of Plate or Crown of Gold
- Exodus 28:36–38 You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD. …
Special Garments of Robe of the Ephod
- Exodus 28:31–35 You are to make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth, …
Specially Called of God
- Exodus 28:1–2 “Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests. …
- Hebrews 5:4 No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.
The Deputy of Called the Second Priest
- 2 Kings 25:18 The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
The Deputy of had Oversight of the Levites
- Numbers 3:32 The chief of the leaders of the Levites was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest; he oversaw those responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.
The Deputy of had Oversight of the Tabernacle
- Numbers 4:16 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest shall oversee the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. He has oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including the holy …
The office of, Hereditary
- Exodus 29:29 The holy garments that belong to Aaron will belong to his sons after him, so they can be anointed and ordained in them.
To be Tender and Compassionate
- Hebrews 5:2 He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is subject to weakness.
To Marry a Virgin of Aaron's Family
- Leviticus 21:13–14 The woman he marries must be a virgin. …
Typified Christ in Alone Entering Into Most Holy Place
- Hebrews 9:7 But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
- Hebrews 9:12 He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
- Hebrews 9:24 For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
- Hebrews 4:14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.
Typified Christ in Bearing the Names of Israel Upon his Heart
- Exodus 28:29 Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD.
- Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
Typified Christ in Being Called of God
- Hebrews 5:4–5 No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was. …
Typified Christ in Being Liable to Temptation
- Hebrews 2:18 Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.
Typified Christ in Blessing
- Leviticus 9:22–23 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having made the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down. …
- Acts 3:26 When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
Typified Christ in Compassion and Sympathy for the Weak and Ignorant
- Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
- Hebrews 5:1–2 Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. …
Typified Christ in His Appointment
- Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- John 1:32–34 Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him. …
Typified Christ in His Title
- Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
Typified Christ in Holiness of office
- Leviticus 21:15 so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”
- Hebrews 7:26 Such a high priest truly befits us — One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
Typified Christ in Interceding
- Numbers 16:43–48 Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting, …
- Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
Typified Christ in Making Atonement
- Leviticus 16:33 and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the assembly.
- Hebrews 2:17 For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.
Typified Christ in Marrying a Virgin
- Leviticus 21:13–14 The woman he marries must be a virgin. …
- 2 Corinthians 11:2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Typified Christ in Performing by Himself all the Services on Day of Atonement
- Leviticus 16:1–34 Now the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of two of Aaron’s sons when they approached the presence of the LORD. …
- Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Typified Christ in Splendid Dress
- Exodus 28:2 Make holy garments for your brother Aaron, to give him glory and splendor.
- John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Wore the Ordinary Priest's Garments when Making Atonement In
- Leviticus 16:4 He is to wear the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments. He must tie a linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are holy garments, and he must bathe himself with water before he wears them.
Worn at his Consecration
- Leviticus 8:7 He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.
- Leviticus 8:9 Moses also put the turban on Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded him.
Worn at his Consecration: Descended to his Successors
- Exodus 29:29 The holy garments that belong to Aaron will belong to his sons after him, so they can be anointed and ordained in them.
Worn at his Consecration: Worn Seven Days After Consecration
- Exodus 29:30 The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place must wear them for seven days.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.