Deborah
and Trey had a beautiful baby boy,
Zadok
Doren Lance
was
born at 11:25 pm on the 11th of February. He weighed 7 lbs. 4
oz.
His
name means “Righteous Gift”.
He
and Mom (and Dad too) are doing great.
Deborah, enjoying the fruits of
her labor.
He looks tiny in Trey’s
arms
The kids could hardly wait to hold
their new nephew.
In case you don’t have a
concordance available to you, these are two of my favorite passages about Zadok
and his sons in the Bible:
1 chronicles
12:28
1Ch
12:28 And Zadok, a young man mighty of
valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
Ezekial 44:15-
31
Eze
44:15 But the priests the Levites, the
sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel
went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they
shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord
GOD:
Eze
44:16 They shall enter into my
sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they
shall keep my charge.
Eze
44:17 And it shall come to pass,
that when they enter
in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments;
and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner
court, and within.
Eze
44:18 They shall have linen bonnets
upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not
gird themselves with any
thing that causeth sweat.
Eze
44:19 And when they go forth into the
utter court, even into the utter
court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered,
and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and
they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
Eze
44:20 Neither shall they shave their
heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Eze
44:21 Neither shall any priest drink
wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Eze
44:22 Neither shall they take for
their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of
the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest
before.
Eze 44:23 And they
shall teach my people the
difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern
between the unclean and the clean.
Eze
44:24 And in controversy they shall
stand in judgment; and they shall judge
it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all
mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
Eze
44:25 And they shall come at no dead
person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile
themselves.
Eze
44:26 And after he is cleansed, they
shall reckon unto him seven days.
Eze
44:27 And in the day that he goeth
into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall
offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze
44:28 And it shall be unto them for an
inheritance: I am their inheritance:
and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
Eze
44:29 They shall eat the meat
offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated
thing in Israel shall be theirs.
Eze
44:30 And the first of all the
firstfruits of all things, and every
oblation of all, of every sort of your
oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first
of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
Eze
44:31 The priests shall not eat of any
thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
