Be strong and fear not; for *they tend towards darkness*, and *they lean on that which is not* and shall not be. To the God of Israel belongs all that is and shall be. - The War Rule XVII (DSS)
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. - John 3:20
They do not know nor do they understand. They walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. - Psalms 82:5
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know over what they stumble! - Proverbs 4:19
And this is the verdict: the light has come into the world, but men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil. - John 3:19
For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon, how (it) disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon. For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abominable (day) the day of testimony, and a common day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the common, and the common day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and sabbaths and feasts and jubilees. - Jubilees 6:36-37
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son. - Colossians 1:13
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. - 1 Thessalonians 5:5
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. - Ephesians 5:8
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. - 1 John 1:5-6
Enter not into the path of the wicked (those who twist and turn away), and go not in the way of evil. - Proverbs 4:14
Phineas the son of Eliazar the son of Ahron the priest...Behold I give to him *my covenant of Peace, and his and his progeny after him (a) covenant of everlasting priesthood* in turn for his zealousness for his God, and *he atoned for the sons of Israel.* - Numbers 25:13
And *I will erect myself a reliable priest* with my heart, and with my soul he will do, and *I will build him a reliable household, and he will go before my Anointed all of days.* - 1 Samuel 2:35
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. They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge."- Ezekiel 44:15-16
Any Kohen complete in his ways, exceptional is his path, and straight in his actions, who rises and lingers in the Beit Knessets and Beit Medrashs and guards himself from every evil thing and every impure thing - *this is from the sons of Zadok the priest and is fit that Ruach HaKodesh should rest on him.* - Rav Hai Gaon, Ginzei Keddem vol.4 p. 54
The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken *the everlasting covenant*. - Isaiah 24:5 (the covenant with Zadok)
In that day the Lord will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below. They will be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon; they will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days. - Isaiah 24:21-22
A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead. - Proverbs 21:16