Azariah the priest and eighty other brave priests of the Lord followed him in.

The Levites had ¹  David’s musical instruments and the priests had trumpets.

The priests left the holy place. ¹  All the priests who participated had consecrated themselves, no matter which division they represented. ² 

Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving ¹  at the priests, a skin disease ²  appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.

Jeroboam ¹  appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers ²  and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made. ³ 

He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side.

When Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps,

He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.

They slaughtered the Passover lambs and the priests splashed the blood, ¹  while the Levites skinned the animals.

But you banished ¹  the Lord’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods! ² 

But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, ¹  so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.) ² 

Afterward they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering burnt sacrifices and fat portions until evening. The Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; ¹  he plated their doors with bronze.

They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries. ¹ 

The priests and Levites who lived throughout Israel supported him, no matter where they resided. ¹ 

But as for us, the Lord is our God and we have not rejected him. Aaron’s descendants serve as the Lord’s priests and the Levites assist them with the work. ¹ 

The men of Judah turned around and realized they were being attacked from the front and the rear. ¹  So they cried out for help to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets,

For a long time ¹  Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.

This is what you must do. One third of you priests and Levites who are on duty during the Sabbath will guard the doors.

Joash did what the Lord approved ¹  throughout the lifetime ²  of Jehoiada the priest.