2 Chronicles 31:3 Cross References - NSB

³ He set aside part of the king’s property for burnt offerings, the morning and evening offerings, burnt offerings on the weekly worship days, the New Moon Festivals, and the annual festivals, as it is written in Jehovah’s Law.

³⁸ »Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs each day, continuously. ³⁹ »Offer one lamb in the morning and offer the other lamb at twilight. ⁴⁰ »Make an offering of eight cups of flour mixed with one quart of virgin olive oil with the first lamb. Offer one quart of wine for a drink offering with the other lamb. ⁴¹ »You will offer the other lamb at twilight. Offer it with the same grain offering and the same drink offering as in the morning, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ⁴² »It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the tent of meeting before Jehovah. That is where I will meet with you to speak to you.

² »Tell the Israelites: ‘These are the appointed festivals with Jehovah. You must announce these as holy assemblies. ³ »‘You may work for six days. But the seventh day is a day of worship (Sabbath), a day when you do not work, and a holy assembly. Do not do any work. It is Jehovah’s day of worship wherever you live. ⁴ »‘The following are Jehovah’s appointed festivals with holy assemblies. You must announce these at their appointed times. ⁵ »‘The Passover, celebrated to honor Jehovah, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month. ⁶ »‘The fifteenth day of the same month the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins. You must not eat any bread made with yeast for seven days. ⁷ »‘Gather to worship on the first of these days. Do none of your daily work. ⁸ »‘Bring a sacrifice to Jehovah for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a holy assembly. Do not do any regular work.’« ⁹ Jehovah spoke to Moses: ¹⁰ »Tell the Israelites: ‘When you come to the land I am going to give you and you harvest grain, bring a bundle of the first grain you harvest to the priest. ¹¹ »‘He will present it to Jehovah so that you will be accepted. He will present it on the day after Passover. ¹² »‘On the day you present the bundle, you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects as a burnt offering to Jehovah. ¹³ »‘Present a grain offering of four quarts of flour mixed with olive oil with it. This will be a sacrifice by fire made to Jehovah. It will be a soothing aroma. Use one quart of wine for the wine offering. ¹⁴ »‘Do not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this same day. Then bring the offering to your God. It is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live. ¹⁵ »‘Count seven full weeks from the day after Passover, the day you bring the bundle of grain as an offering presented to Jehovah ¹⁶ until the day after the seventh week. This is a total of fifty days. Then bring a new grain offering to Jehovah. ¹⁷ »‘Bring two loaves of bread from your homes to present to Jehovah. Bake them with four quarts of flour. They are the first harvested grain for Jehovah. ¹⁸ »‘Using the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They should be offered as a burnt offering to Jehovah, along with a grain offering and a wine offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to Jehovah. ¹⁹ »‘Also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering. ²⁰ »‘The priest should present the bread with the two lambs as a special gift to Jehovah for the priests. These offerings are holy. ²¹ »‘Do none of your daily work. Gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation from generation to generation, no matter where they live. ²² »‘When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields. Do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. Jehovah is your God.’« ²³ Jehovah continued to speak to Moses: ²⁴ »Observe a special day of rest on the first day of the seventh month. Gather together for worship when the trumpets sound. ²⁵ »Present a food offering to Jehovah. Do not do your daily work.« ²⁶ Jehovah spoke to Moses: ²⁷ »The tenth day of this seventh month is a special day for the payment for sins. There will be a holy assembly. Humble yourselves, and bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire. ²⁸ »Do not do any work that day. It is a special day for the payment for sins. It is a time when you pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah your God. ²⁹ »Those who do not humble themselves on that day will be excluded from the people. ³⁰ »I will destroy those who do any work on that day. ³¹ »Do not do any work! It is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live. ³² »It is a day of worship (sabbath), a day when you do not work. Humble yourselves starting on the evening of the ninth day of the month. From that evening to the next, observe the day of worship.« ³³ Jehovah spoke to Moses: ³⁴ Inform the Israelites: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths to Jehovah. It will last seven days. ³⁵ »‘There will be a holy assemble on the first day. Do not do any regular work. ³⁶ »‘Bring a sacrifice by fire to Jehovah for seven consecutive days. On the eighth day there will be a holy assembly. Bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire. This is the last festival of the year. Do not do any regular work. ³⁷ »‘These are Jehovah’s appointed festivals. Announce them as holy assemblies for bringing sacrifices by fire to Jehovah. Bring burnt offerings, grain offerings, other sacrifices, and wine offerings-each one on its special day. ³⁸ »‘This is in addition to Jehovah’s days of worship, your gifts, all your vows, and your freewill offerings to Jehovah. ³⁹ »‘Celebrate Jehovah’s festival for seven days. This should begin on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; at the time you gather what the land produces. The first and the eighth days will be worship festivals. ⁴⁰ »‘Take the best fruits, palm branches, the branches of leafy trees and poplars on the first day, and celebrate in the presence of Jehovah your God for seven days. ⁴¹ »‘It is Jehovah’s festival. Celebrate it for seven days each year. This is a long lasting law for generations to come. Celebrate this festival in the seventh month. ⁴² »‘Live in booths for seven days. Everyone born in Israel must live in booths. ⁴³ »‘This is how generations to come may learn how I made the people of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God!’« ⁴⁴ Moses told the Israelites about Jehovah’s appointed festivals.

¹ Jehovah commanded Moses: ² »Instruct the Israelites to present to God at the appointed time the required food offerings that are pleasing to him. ³ »‘These are the food offerings that are to be presented to Jehovah: for the daily burnt offering, two one-year-old male lambs without any defects. ⁴ »‘Offer the first lamb in the morning, and the second in the evening, ⁵ each with a grain offering of two pounds of flour, mixed with two pints of the best olive oil. ⁶ »‘This is the daily offering that is completely burned. It was first offered at Mount Sinai as a food offering, an odor pleasing to Jehovah. ⁷ »‘As the wine offering with the first lamb, pour out at the altar two pints of wine. ⁸ »‘Offer the second lamb in the evening in the same way as the morning offering, together with its wine offering. It also is a food offering, an odor pleasing to Jehovah. ⁹ »‘On the Sabbath day offer two one-year-old male lambs without any defects, four pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, and the wine offering. ¹⁰ »‘This burnt offering is to be offered every Sabbath in addition to the daily offering with its wine offering. ¹¹ »‘At the beginning of each of your months you shall present a burnt offering to Jehovah: two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect. ¹² »‘With each bull there will be a grain offering of twenty-four cups of flour mixed with olive oil, with each ram a grain offering of sixteen cups of flour mixed with olive oil. ¹³ »‘With each one-year-old lamb a grain offering of eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil. This is a burnt offering, a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ¹⁴ »‘The wine offering that goes with each bull will be two quarts of wine, with each ram one and one half quarts of wine, and with each lamb one quart of wine. This will be the monthly burnt offering for every month of the year. ¹⁵ »‘In addition to the daily burnt offering with its wine offering, one male goat must be offered to Jehovah as an offering for sin. ¹⁶ »‘Jehovah’s Passover is the fourteenth day of the first month. ¹⁷ »‘The feast of unleavened bread in the fifteenth of this same month. For seven days you must eat only unleavened bread. ¹⁸ »‘There will be a holy assembly on the first day. Do not do any regular work. ¹⁹ »‘Instead, bring Jehovah an offering by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old lambs, all of them without defects. ²⁰ »‘In addition to them bring grain offerings of flour mixed with olive oil. Bring twenty-four cups for each bull, sixteen cups for each ram, ²¹ and eight cups for each of the seven lambs. ²² »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah. ²³ »‘Offer these in addition to the morning burnt offering. ²⁴ »‘Bring all these offerings on each of the seven days. They are food. They are offerings by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah. They will be offered in addition to the daily burnt offering and the wine offering that goes with it. ²⁵ »‘On the seventh day you must have a holy assembly. You must not do any regular work. ²⁶ »‘During the Festival of Weeks, you must have a holy assembly. On that day you must not do any regular work. Bring Jehovah your new grain offering, the first produce harvested from your fields. ²⁷ »‘Offer a burnt offering as an odor pleasing to Jehovah: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ²⁸ »‘Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: six pounds with each bull, four pounds with the ram, ²⁹ and two pounds with each lamb. ³⁰ »‘Offer one male goat as a sin offering. In this way perform the ritual of purification for the people. ³¹ »‘Offer these and the wine offering in addition to the daily burnt offering and grain offering.

¹ »‘Gather for worship on the first day of the seventh month. Do not work. Trumpets will be blown on that day. ² »‘Present a burnt offering to Jehovah. It is an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ³ »‘Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: six pounds of flour with the bull, four pounds with the ram, ⁴ and two pounds with each lamb. ⁵ »‘Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. In this way perform the ritual of purification for the people. ⁶ »‘Offer these in addition to the monthly burnt offering with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offerings with their proper grain offerings and wine offerings. It is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ⁷ »‘Call a holy assembly on the tenth day of the seventh month. Humble yourselves do no work. ⁸ »‘As a burnt offering, a soothing aroma, bring one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old lambs, all of them without defects. ⁹ »‘Bring grain offerings of flour mixed with olive oil. Bring twenty-four cups for each bull, sixteen cups for each ram, ¹⁰ and eight cups for each of the seven lambs. ¹¹ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the other offering for sin to make peace with Jehovah and the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ¹² »‘Call a holy assembly on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. You must not do any regular work. Instead, celebrate a festival to Jehovah for seven days. ¹³ »‘As a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah, bring thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old lambs, all of them without defects. ¹⁴ »‘Along with them bring grain offerings of flour mixed with olive oil. Bring twenty-four cups for each of the thirteen bulls, sixteen cups for each of the two rams, ¹⁵ and eight cups for each of the fourteen one-year-old lambs. ¹⁶ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ¹⁷ »‘On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ¹⁸ »‘Offer grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance; ¹⁹ and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings. ²⁰ »‘Then on the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect; ²¹ and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance; ²² and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering. ²³ »‘Then on the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect; ²⁴ grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance; ²⁵ and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering. ²⁶ »‘Then on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect; ²⁷ and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance; ²⁸ and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering. ²⁹ »‘Then on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect. ³⁰ »‘Along with them bring the proper amount of grain offerings and wine offerings for each of the bulls, rams, and lambs. ³¹ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ³² »‘On the seventh day bring seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old lambs that have no defects. ³³ »‘Along with them bring the proper amount of grain offerings and wine offerings for each of the bulls, rams, and lambs. ³⁴ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ³⁵ »‘On the eighth day you must hold a religious assembly. Do no daily work. ³⁶ »‘As a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah, bring one bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old lambs that have no defects. ³⁷ »‘Along with them bring the proper amount of grain offerings and wine offerings for the bull, the ram, and the lambs. ³⁸ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ³⁹ »‘These are the offerings you must bring to Jehovah at your festivals. They are the offerings you must bring in addition to the offerings for anything you vowed to give to Jehovah, your freewill offerings, your burnt offerings, your grain offerings, your wine offerings, and your fellowship offerings.’« ⁴⁰ Moses told the Israelites everything Jehovah had commanded him.

¹ »Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to Jehovah your God. It was in the month of Abib that Jehovah your God brought you out of Egypt by night. ² »Sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Jehovah chooses to establish his name. ³ »Do not eat leavened bread with it. Eat unleavened bread for seven days. It is the bread of affliction. You should remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt in haste. ⁴ »No leaven should be seen with you in all your territory for seven days. None of the flesh you sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall remain overnight until morning. ⁵ »You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns Jehovah your God is giving you. ⁶ »It must be at the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish his name. Sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt. ⁷ »Cook and eat it in the place Jehovah your God chooses. In the morning you are to return to your tents. ⁸ »Eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God. Do not do work on it. ⁹ »You shall count seven weeks for yourself. Count off seven weeks from the beginning of your grain harvest. ¹⁰ »Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to Jehovah your God. Bring a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings Jehovah your God has given you. ¹¹ »Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Jehovah your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Jehovah your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. ¹² »Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. Carefully obey these laws. ¹³ »Gather the grain from your threshing floor and make your wine. Then celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days. ¹⁴ »Enjoy yourselves at the festival along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities. ¹⁵ »For seven days you will celebrate this festival dedicated to Jehovah your God in the place he will choose. You will enjoy yourselves, because Jehovah your God will bless all your harvest and all your work. ¹⁶ »Three times a year all your men must come into the presence of Jehovah your God at the place he will choose. At the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. But no one may come into the presence of Jehovah without an offering. ¹⁷ »Every man shall give, as he is able; according to the blessing Jehovah your God has given you.

²⁶ Shelomith and his relatives were in charge of all the treasuries for the things dedicated by King David, by the heads of families who were the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and by the other army commanders.

²⁴ Hezekiah king of Judah contributed one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep to the assembly. The princes contributed one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep to the assembly. A large number of priests consecrated themselves.

⁷ Josiah donated thirty thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand bulls from his own flocks and herds for the people to offer as sacrifices.

¹ ([Psalm of Asaph]) Sing for joy to God our strength. Shout joyfully to the God of Jacob. ² Sing a song and strike the tambourine. Play the sweet sounding lyre with the harp. ³ Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, and on our feast day. ⁴ For this is required by the law of Israel. It is an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

¹⁷ »‘Then the prince is responsible to provide burnt offerings, grain offerings, and wine offerings at the annual festivals, the New Moon Festivals, the weekly days of worship, and all the other appointed festivals of the nation of Israel. He must prepare offerings for sin, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the nation of Israel.

⁴ »‘The prince must offer to Jehovah six lambs that have no defects and one ram that has no defects as a burnt offering on the day of worship. ⁵ »‘The grain offering that is to be brought with the ram must be a half-bushel, and the grain offering that is to be brought with the lambs must be whatever the prince can bring. One gallon of olive oil must be brought with each half-bushel of grain. ⁶ »‘On the first day of the month, the burnt offering must be one young bull, six lambs, and one ram-all animals that have no defects. ⁷ »‘With each young bull and each ram the offering must include a half-bushel of grain, and with each lamb the offering must be whatever the prince wants to bring. One gallon of olive oil must be offered with each half-bushel of grain.

¹² »‘When the prince prepares a freewill burnt offering, either a burnt offering or a fellowship offering to Jehovah, the east gate must be opened for him. He must sacrifice burnt offerings and fellowship offerings as he does on the day of worship. When he leaves, the gate must be shut after him. ¹³ »‘Prepare a year-old lamb that has no defects every day as a burnt offering to Jehovah. Do this every morning. ¹⁴ »‘Also, prepare a grain offering with it every morning: three-and-a-third quarts of grain and one-and-a-third quarts of olive oil to moisten the flour. It will be a grain offering dedicated to Jehovah. These rules are to be followed always. ¹⁵ »‘Prepare the lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil every morning as a daily burnt offering.’ ¹⁶ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Suppose the prince offers one of his sons a gift from his property. The gift will belong to his descendants because it is their inheritance. ¹⁷ »‘Suppose the prince offers a gift from his property to one of his servants. The gift will belong to the servant only until the year of freedom. Then the gift will go back to the prince. Only his sons can inherit his property. ¹⁸ »‘The prince must not take any of the people's property. He must not force them to give up their property. He must give his own property as an inheritance to his sons so that none of my people will be separated from their property.’«

¹⁶ Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day. ¹⁷ They are a shadow of the things to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.