1 Kings 12:31 “Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from ever…”

1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

World English Bible

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

American Standard Version

And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.

Geneva Bible 1599

Also he made an house of hie places, and made Priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.

Darby Translation

And he made a house of high places, and made priests from all classes of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

Young's Literal Translation

And he maketh the house of high places, and maketh priests of the extremities of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi;

Bible in Basic English

And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

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Cross references

“an house”

1 Kings 13:24 Deuteronomy 24:15 Ezekiel 16:25 Hosea 12:11 1 Kings 13:32

1 Kings 13:24 · BSB

As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

Deuteronomy 24:15 · BSB

You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Ezekiel 16:25 · BSB

At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.

Hosea 12:11 · BSB

Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

1 Kings 13:32 · BSB

for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”

“priests”

2 Kings 17:32 2 Chronicles 13:9 Numbers 3:10 Ezekiel 44:6–8 1 Kings 13:33 2 Chronicles 11:14

2 Kings 17:32 · BSB

So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.

2 Chronicles 13:9 · BSB

But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bu…

Numbers 3:10 · BSB

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”

Ezekiel 44:6–8 · BSB

Tell the rebellious house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I have had enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel.

1 Kings 13:33 · BSB

Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.

2 Chronicles 11:14 · BSB

For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

30And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.

32And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

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