Text: Ezra 6:18
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 12:13-14
Subject: Worship personnel serve at Jerusalem (C)
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Ezra 6:18 records that priests and Levites were installed "for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses" (כִּכְתָב סֵפֶר מֹשֶׁה, kikhtav sefer Mosheh). This explicit appeal to Mosaic authority connects to Deuteronomy 12:13-14, which prohibits offering sacrifices "in every place you see" but commands worship only at "the place the LORD will choose" (הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר יְהוָה). The Ezra passage demonstrates that post-exilic worship personnel serve specifically at Jerusalem because that is the place YHWH chose, fulfilling the Deuteronomic principle of centralized worship. The phrase "as written in the Book of Moses" asserts direct continuity between second temple practice and Pentateuchal legislation.