Luke 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Before God - In the temple, where God dwelt by the symbols of His presence. The temple was regarded by the Jews as the “house” or dwelling of God; and in the “first” temple there was, in the most holy place, a “cloud” called the Shechinah, or a visible sign of the presence of God. It was thus “before God” that Zechariah offered incense.

Luke 1:8

8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,