1992 verses about Holiness

When he took up the robe of glory, And put on the perfection of exultation, In the ascent of the holy altar, He made glorious the precinct of the sanctuary.

And all the sons of Aaron in their glory, And the Lord’s offering in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel.

And finishing the service at the altars, That he might adorn the offering of the Most High, the Almighty,

I set my soul aright to her, And in pureness I found her. I got me a heart joined with her from the beginning: Therefore shall I not be forsaken.

O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!

Cast about you the robe of the righteousness which comes from God; set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting.

For your name shall be called of God forever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of godliness.

and cause not your mercy to depart from us, for the sake of Abraham that is beloved of you, and for the sake of Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one;

like as in the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like as in ten thousands of fat lambs; so let our sacrifice be in your sight this day, and grant that we may wholly go after you, for they shall not be ashamed that put their trust in you.

And blessed is your glorious and holy name: and to be praised and exalted above all forever.

Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory: and to be praised and glorified above all forever.

Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom: and to be praised and extolled above all forever.

Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven: and to be praised and glorified forever.

O let Israel bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all forever.

O you⌃ that are holy and humble of heart, bless you⌃ the Lord: praise and exalt him above all forever.

And they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled the sanctuary.

and pollute the sanctuary and those who were holy;

And they chose to die, that they might not be defiled with the meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: and they died.

and, behold, our holy things and our beauty and our glory are laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned them.

And they brought the priests’ garments, and the first fruits, and the tithes: and they stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days.

And your holy place is trodden down and profaned, and your priests are in heaviness and brought low.

for it is better for us to die in battle, than to look upon the evils of our nation and the holy place.

But Judas and his kindred said, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse the holy place, and to dedicate it afresh.

Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the citadel, until he should have cleansed the holy place.

And he chose blameless priests, such as had pleasure in the law:

and they cleansed the holy place, and bare out the stones of defilement into an unclean place.

And they took counsel concerning the altar of burnt offerings, which had been profaned, what they should do with it:

and there came into their mind a good counsel, that they should pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it: and they pulled down the altar,

and they built the holy place, and the inner parts of the house; and they hallowed the courts.

And they made the holy vessels new, and they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings and of incense, and the table, into the temple.

And they burned incense upon the altar, and they lighted the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.

At what time and on what day the Gentiles had profaned it, even on that day was it dedicated afresh, with songs and harps and lutes, and with cymbals.

And they decked the forefront of the temple with crowns of gold and small shields, and dedicated afresh the gates and the priests’ chambers, and made doors for them.

and he gave himself to deliver his people, and to get him an everlasting name;

And Jonathan put on the holy garments in the seventh month of the hundred and sixties year, at the feast of tabernacles, and he gathered together forces, and provided arms in abundance.

And let Jerusalem be holy and free, and her borders; the tenths and the tolls also.

I yield up also my authority over the citadel which is at Jerusalem, and give it to the high priest, that he may appoint in it such men as he shall choose to keep it.

And they cried out to Simon, that he should give them his right hand; and he gave it to them: and he put them out from thence, and he cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.

He glorified the sanctuary, and the vessels of the temple he multiplied.

and that the Jews and the priests were well pleased that Simon should be their leader and high priest forever, until there should arise a faithful prophet;

For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that time took of the fire of the altar, and hid it privily in the hollow of a well that was without water, wherein they made it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

accept the sacrifice for all your people Israel, and guard your own portion, and consecrate it.

Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said.

then the king, inclosing the place, made it sacred, after he had proved the matter.

WHEN the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness,

and that it was altogether impossible that wrong should be done to them that had put trust in the holiness of the place, and in the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honored over all the world.

And when Onias had sure knowledge of this, he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch.

But not content with this he presumed to enter into the most holy temple of all the earth, having Menelaus for his guide (him that had proved himself a traitor both to the laws and to his country),

even taking the sacred vessels with his polluted hands, and dragging down with his profane hands the offerings that had been dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honor of the place.

and when he was at the point to die with the stripes, he groaned aloud and said, To the Lord, that has the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, whereas I might have been delivered from death, I endure sore pains in my body by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things for my fear of him.

So he also died pure from pollution, putting his whole trust in the Lord.

setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the shameful handling of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the mode of life received from their ancestors.

And having cleansed the sanctuary they made another altar of sacrifice; and striking stones and taking fire out of them, they offered sacrifices, after they had ceased for two years, and burned incense, and lighted lamps, and set forth the show bread.

Now on the same day that the sanctuary was profaned by aliens, upon that very day did it come to pass that the cleansing of the sanctuary was made, even on the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Chislev.

And Judas gathering his army came to the city of Adullam; and as the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the Sabbath there.

(And if he did it looking to an honorable memorial of gratitude laid up for those who die in godliness, holy and godly was the thought.) Wherefore he made the atoning sacrifice for those who had died, that they might be released from their sin.

for inasmuch as he had perpetrated many sins against the altar, whose fire and whose ashes were holy, in ashes did he receive his death.

You, O Lord of the universe, who in yourself have need of nothing, was well pleased that a sanctuary of your habitation should be set among us;

so now, O holy Lord of all hallowing, keep undefiled forever this house that has been lately cleansed.

having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the temple of the Lord.

And he spoke to the Levites, the temple-servants of Israel, that they should hallow themselves to the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that King Solomon the son of David had built:

according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son: and standing in the holy place according to the several divisions of the families of you the Levites, who minister in the presence of your kindred the children of Israel,

And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness.

for to them said Nehemias and Attharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up a high priest wearing Urim and Thummim.

did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the elders of the Jews and rulers of the temple.

and all those who were of the captivity; for they were sanctified. For the Levites were all sanctified together,

And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all those who had separated themselves from the abominations of the heathen of the land, and sought the Lord.

the son of Sadduk, the son of Ahitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ozias, the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisne, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the chief priest.

There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and Levites, and holy singers, and gatekeepers, and temple servants, to Jerusalem,

And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem:

and I weighed them the silver, and the gold, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his counselors, and the nobles, and all Israel, had given.

And I said to them, Both you⌃ are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver are a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers.

Watch you⌃, and keep them till you⌃ deliver them to the chiefs of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of our Lord.

For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity.

That the land, which you⌃ enter into to possess as a heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

This day is holy to the Lord; (now they all wept when they heard the law:)

for the day is holy to the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honor.

So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy; be not sorrowful.

Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court,

And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way.

New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardour which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple.

Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.

O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who exults in his confidence and strength.

You, O King, when you created the illimitable and measureless earth, did choose out this city: you did make this place sacred to your name, albeit you need nothing: you did glorify it with your illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of your great and honorable name.

We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonor this your holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of your Majesty.

Your dwelling place, the heaven of heavens, is indeed unapproachable to men.

But since it seemed good to you to exhibit your glory among your people Israel, you did sanctify this place.

We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon.

At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence.

And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the presbyters who were about him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus:

and of all the depths of the sea you have filled you one river: and of all built cities you have hallowed Sion to yourself:

In the time that they lived therein they painfully served the Most High, and were in jeopardy every hour, that they might keep the law of the lawgiver perfectly.

Yet in this shall you be admirable to the Most High;

But those that be left behind of your people are those who are found within my holy border.

Reasoning is, then, intellect accompanied by a life of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom.

And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.

And when many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king’s followers, was brought near to him.

Mouth! you shall not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life.

And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the comeliness of piety.

for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,