Keluaran 29:9

29:9 and wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons ¹  and put headbands on them, and so the ministry of priesthood will belong to them by a perpetual ordinance. Thus you are to consecrate ²  Aaron and his sons.

Keluaran 29:1

The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons

29:1 ³ “Now this is what ⁴  you are to do for them to consecrate them so that they may minister as my priests. Take a young ⁵  bull and two rams without blemish; ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 13:33

A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty

13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; ⁷  he continued to appoint common people ⁸  as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. ⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 13:2

13:2 With the authority of the Lord ¹⁰  he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’” ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 17:1-2

Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory

17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), ¹²  there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” ¹³  17:2 The Lord told him: ¹⁴ 

1 Tawarikh 11:14-15

11:14 but then they made a stand in the middle of that area. They defended it ¹⁵  and defeated the Philistines; the Lord gave them a great victory. ¹⁶ 

11:15 Three of the thirty leaders went down to David at the rocky cliff at the cave of Adullam, while a Philistine force was camped in the Valley of Rephaim.

[29:9]  ¹ tc Hebrew has both the objective pronoun “them” and the names “Aaron and his sons.” Neither the LXX nor Leviticus 8:13 has “Aaron and his sons,” suggesting that this may have been a later gloss in the text.

[29:9]  ² tn Heb “and you will fill the hand” and so “consecrate” or “ordain.” The verb draws together the individual acts of the process.

[29:1]  ³ sn Chap. 29 is a rather long, involved discussion of the consecration of Aaron the priest. It is similar to the ordination service in Lev 8. In fact, the execution of what is instructed here is narrated there. But these instructions must have been formulated after or in conjunction with Lev 1-7, for they presuppose a knowledge of the sacrifices. The bulk of the chapter is the consecration of the priests: 1-35. It has the preparation (1-3), washing (4), investiture and anointing (5-9), sin offering (10-14), burnt offering (15-18), installation peace offering (19-26, 31-34), other offerings’ rulings (27-30), and the duration of the ritual (35). Then there is the consecration of the altar (36-37), and the oblations (38-46). There are many possibilities for the study and exposition of this material. The whole chapter is the consecration of tabernacle, altar, people, and most of all the priests. God was beginning the holy operations with sacral ritual. So the overall message would be: Everyone who ministers, everyone who worships, and everything they use in the presence of Yahweh, must be set apart to God by the cleansing, enabling, and sanctifying work of God.

[29:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “the thing.”

[29:1]  ⁵ tn Literally: “take one bull, a ‘son’ of the herd.”

[29:1]  ⁶ tn The word תָּמִים (tamim) means “perfect.” The animals could not have diseases or be crippled or blind (see Mal 1). The requirement was designed to ensure that the people would give the best they had to Yahweh. The typology pointed to the sinless Messiah who would fulfill all these sacrifices in his one sacrifice on the cross.

[13:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”

[13:33]  ⁸ sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.

[13:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”

[13:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:2]  ¹¹ sn ‘Look…you.’ For the fulfillment of this prophecy see 2 Kgs 23:15-20.

[17:1]  ¹² tn Heb “before whom I stand.”

[17:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”

[17:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came to him, saying.”

[11:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “delivered it.”

[11:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and the Lord delivered [with] a great deliverance.”