Luke Chapter 1 verse 9 Holy Bible
according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
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And as was the way of the priests, he had to go into the Temple to see to the burning of perfumes.
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it fell to him by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn incense.
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According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
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according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
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according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot was to make perfume, having gone into the sanctuary of the Lord,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - His lot was to burn incense; more accurately, he obtained by lot the duty of entering and offering incense. The office of burning incense gave the priest to whom this important lot fell the right of entering the holy place. It was the most coveted of all the priestly duties. The Talmud says the priest who obtained the right to perform this high duty was not permitted to draw the lot a second time in the same week, and as the whole number of priests at this time was very large - some say even as many as twenty thousand - Farrar conjectures that it would never happen to the same priest twice in his lifetime to enter that sacred spot.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9)His lot was to burn incense.--The order of the courses was, as has been said, one of rotation. The distribution of functions during the week was determined by lot. That of offering incense, symbolising, as it did, the priestly work of presenting the prayers of the people, and joining his own with them (Psalm 141:2; Revelation 5:8), was of all priestly acts the most distinctive (2Chronicles 26:18). At such a moment all the hopes of one who looked for the Christ as the consolation of Israel would gather themselves into one great intercession.Into the temple of the Lord--i.e., the Holy Place, into which none but the priests might enter.
