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Luke 1:9

WEB

9according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

KJV

9According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

BSB

9he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

FBV

9he was chosen by lot[+] according to priestly custom to enter the Temple of the Lord and burn incense.

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Extra References

2 Chronicles 29:11

11My sons, don’t be negligent now; for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers and burn incense.”


Exodus 30:7-8

7Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it. 8When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.


1 Chronicles 23:13

13The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister to him, and to bless in his name forever.


Numbers 16:40

40to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before the LORD, that he not be as Korah and as his company; as the LORD spoke to him by Moses.


1 Samuel 2:28

28Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?


2 Chronicles 26:16

16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly and he trespassed against the LORD his God, for he went into the LORD’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.


Hebrews 9:6

6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,


1 Chronicles 6:49

49But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.


Exodus 37:25-29

25He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its width a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it. 26He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it. 27He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it. 28He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. 29He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.