3 And another angel who had a golden censer came and stood at the altar, and a large amount of incense was given to him, in order that he could offer the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne.
Revelation 8:3 Cross References - LEB
Genesis 48:15-16
15 And he blessed Joseph and said,
"The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked, The God who shepherded me ⌊all my life⌋* unto this day, 16 The angel who redeemed me from all evil, may he bless the boys. And through them let my name be perpetuated,* and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. And let them multiply into many in the midst of the earth.
"The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked, The God who shepherded me ⌊all my life⌋* unto this day, 16 The angel who redeemed me from all evil, may he bless the boys. And through them let my name be perpetuated,* and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. And let them multiply into many in the midst of the earth.
Exodus 3:2-18
2 And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and there was the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not being consumed.
3 And Moses said, "Let me turn aside and see this great sight. Why does the bush not burn up?"
4 And Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the bush, and he said, "Moses, Moses." And he said, "Here I am."
5 And he said, "You must not come near to here. Take off your sandals from on your feet, because the place on which you are standing, it is holy ground."
6 And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face because he was afraid of looking at God.
7 And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.
8 And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites* and the Hittites* and the Amorites* and the Perizzites* and the Hivites* and the Jebusites.*
9 And now, look, the cry of distress of the ⌊Israelites⌋* has come to me, and also I see the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.
10 And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you must bring my people, the ⌊Israelites⌋,* out from Egypt."
11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the ⌊Israelites⌋* out from Egypt?"
12 And he said, "Because I am with you, and this will be the sign for you that I myself have sent you: When you bring the people out from Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain."
13 But Moses said to God, "Look, if I go to the ⌊Israelites⌋* and I say to them, 'The God of your ancestors* has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is his name?' then what shall I say to them?"
14 And God said to Moses, "I am that I am." And he said, "So you must say to the ⌊Israelites⌋,* 'I am sent me to you.'"
15 And God said again to Moses, "So you must say to the ⌊Israelites⌋,* 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,* the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my remembrance from generation to generation.'
16 Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,* appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "I have carefully attended to you and what has been done to you in Egypt."
17 And I said, "I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites* and the Hittites* and the Amorites* and the Perizzites* and the Hivites* and the Jebusites,* to a land flowing with milk and honey." '
18 And they will listen to your voice, and you will go, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you will say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us please go on a journey of three days into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God.'
Exodus 30:1-8
1 "And you will make an altar for burning incense; you will make it of acacia wood,
2 a cubit its length and a cubit its width—it will be square—and two cubits its height, its horns ⌊of one piece with it⌋.*
3 And you will overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around and its horns, and you will make for it a gold molding all around.
4 And you will make two gold rings for it; under its molding ⌊on two opposite sides⌋* you will make them as ⌊holders⌋* for poles to carry it with them.
5 You will make the poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with gold.
6 And you will put it before the curtain that is upon the ark of the testimony, before the atonement cover, which is on the testimony, there where I will meet with you.
7 "And on it Aaron will turn fragrant incense into smoke; ⌊each morning⌋* when he tends the lamps, he will turn it into smoke.
8 And when Aaron sets up the lamps ⌊at twilight⌋,* he will turn it into smoke—incense of continuity—before Yahweh throughout your generations.
Exodus 37:25-26
Exodus 40:26
26 And he placed the gold altar in the tent of assembly before the curtain.
Leviticus 16:12-13
12 And he shall take a* censer full of ⌊burning charcoal⌋* from upon the altar from ⌊before⌋* Yahweh and ⌊two handfuls⌋* of incense of powdered fragrant perfumes, and he shall bring it ⌊from behind⌋* the curtain,
13 and he shall put the incense on the fire ⌊before⌋* Yahweh so that the cloud of incense might cover the atonement cover, which is on the ⌊covenant text⌋,* so that he might not die.
Numbers 16:46-47
46 And Moses and Aaron said, "Take the censer, and put fire on it from the altar. Place incense on it, and bring it quickly to the community, and make atonement for them, because wrath went out from the presence of Yahweh, and a plague has begun."
47 And so Aaron took it just as Moses had spoken, and he ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people; so he gave the incense and made atonement for the people.
1 Kings 7:50
50 The cups, the snuffers, the bowls for drinking wine, the bowls for the incense, and the firepans were made from beaten gold; the facades for the doors of the inner house, for the ⌊most holy place⌋,* for the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold.
2 Chronicles 26:16-20
16 But on account of his strength his heart grew proud unto destruction. And he acted unfaithfully against Yahweh his God and went into the temple of Yahweh to offer an incense offering on the altar.
17 And Azariah the priest, along with eighty strong priests with him, went in after him.
18 And they stood against King Uzziah and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but it is for the priests, the descendants* of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully. There will be no honor for you from Yahweh God."
19 Then Uzziah, his censer in hand to burn incense, became angry. And when he became angry with the priests, then leprosy appeared on his forehead in front of the priests in the house of Yahweh at the altar of incense.
20 When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him, behold, he was leprous in the forehead. So they rushed him away from there, and he also hastened to go out, for Yahweh had smitten him.
Psalms 141:2
2 Let my prayer be set before you as incense, the lifting up of my palms as the evening offering.
Amos 9:1
1 I saw my Lord standing by the altar and he said, "Strike the capitals so that the thresholds will shake, and shatter them on the head of all of them, and I will kill the rest of them with the sword. A fugitive belonging to them will not run away, and a survivor belonging to them will not escape.
Malachi 1:11
11 From the rising of the sun to its setting, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is being presented to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of hosts.
Luke 1:10
10 And the whole crowd of the people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.
Acts 7:30-32
30 "And when* forty years had been completed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning bush.
31 And when* Moses saw it,* he was astonished at the sight, and when* he approached to look at it,* the voice of the Lord came:
32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob!'* So Moses began trembling and* did not dare to look at it.*
Romans 8:34
34 Who is the one who condemns? Christ* is the one who died, and more than that, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
Hebrews 4:15-16
Hebrews 7:25
25 Therefore also he is able to save completely those who draw near to God through him, because he* always lives in order to intercede on their behalf.
Hebrews 9:4
4 containing the golden incense altar and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which were a golden jar containing the manna and the rod of Aaron that budded and the tablets of the covenant.
Hebrews 10:19-22
19 Therefore, brothers, since we* have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
20 by the new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh,
21 and since we have* a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
1 John 2:1-2
Revelation 5:8
8 And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one of whom had a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 6:9
9 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and because of the testimony which they had,
Revelation 7:2
2 And I saw another angel ascending ⌊from the east⌋*, holding the seal of the living God, and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels ⌊who were given permission⌋* to damage the earth and the sea,
Revelation 8:4
4 And the smoke of the incense went up before God with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel.
Revelation 9:13
13 And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the horns* of the golden altar that is before God
Revelation 10:1
1 And I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, and a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet were like pillars of fire,*