Psalms 141:2 Cross References

Psalms 141:2

2: Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

And as he took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they held gold bowls filled with incense--the prayers of God's people!

Then another angel with a gold incense burner came and stood at the altar. And a great quantity of incense was given to him to mix with the prayers of God's people, to be offered on the gold altar before the throne.
The smoke of the incense, mixed with the prayers of the saints, ascended up to God from the altar where the angel had poured them out.

So wherever you assemble, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy.

As I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came swiftly to me at the time of the evening sacrifice.

But my name is honored by people of other nations from morning till night. All around the world they offer sweet incense and pure offerings in honor of my name. For my name is great among the nations," says the LORD Almighty.

These were the LORD's instructions to Moses concerning the incense: "Gather sweet spices--resin droplets, mollusk scent, galbanum, and pure frankincense--weighing out the same amounts of each.
Using the usual techniques of the incense maker, refine it to produce a pure and holy incense.
Beat some of it very fine and put some of it in front of the Ark of the Covenant, where I will meet with you in the Tabernacle. This incense is most holy.
Never make this incense for yourselves. It is reserved for the LORD, and you must treat it as holy.
Those who make it for their own enjoyment will be cut off from the community."

"Every morning when Aaron trims the lamps, he must burn fragrant incense on the altar.
And each evening when he tends to the lamps, he must again burn incense in the LORD's presence. This must be done from generation to generation.
Do not offer any unholy incense on this altar, or any burnt offerings, grain offerings, or drink offerings.

The LORD hates the sacrifice of the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright.

At the customary time for offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet walked up to the altar and prayed, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant. Prove that I have done all this at your command.

Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.

Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

As was the custom of the priests, he was chosen by lot to enter the sanctuary and burn incense in the Lord's presence.
While the incense was being burned, a great crowd stood outside, praying.

Offer the other lamb in the evening, along with the same offerings of flour and wine as in the morning. It will be a fragrant offering to the LORD, an offering made by fire.
"This is to be a daily burnt offering given from generation to generation. Offer it in the LORD's presence at the Tabernacle entrance, where I will meet you and speak with you.

"Then Aaron will present the young bull as a sin offering for himself and his family. After he has slaughtered this bull for the sin offering,
he will fill an incense burner with burning coals from the altar that stands before the LORD. Then, after filling both his hands with fragrant incense, he will carry the burner and incense behind the inner curtain.
There in the LORD's presence, he will put the incense on the burning coals so that a cloud of incense will rise over the Ark's cover--the place of atonement--that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. If he follows these instructions, he will not die.

Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel came and sat with me because of this unfaithfulness of his people. And I sat there utterly appalled until the time of the evening sacrifice.

Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o'clock prayer service.

Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu put coals of fire in their incense burners and sprinkled incense over it. In this way, they disobeyed the LORD by burning before him a different kind of fire than he had commanded.
So fire blazed forth from the LORD's presence and burned them up, and they died there before the LORD.

Then fire blazed forth from the LORD and burned up the 250 men who were offering incense.

And Moses said to Aaron, "Quick, take an incense burner and place burning coals on it from the altar. Lay incense on it and carry it quickly among the people to make atonement for them. The LORD's anger is blazing among them--the plague has already begun."
Aaron did as Moses told him and ran out among the people. The plague indeed had already begun, but Aaron burned the incense and made atonement for them.
He stood between the living and the dead until the plague was stopped.

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