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1 Kings 12:31

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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.

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיַּ֖עַשׂvai.Ya.'asand he madeH6213 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
בֵּ֣יתbeita house ofH1004 →
בָּמ֑וֹתba.Mothigh placesH1116 →
וַיַּ֤עַשׂvai.Ya.'asand he appointedH6213 →
כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ko.ha.NimpriestsH3548 →
מִקְצ֣וֹתmik.Tzotfrom [the] ends ofH7098 →
הָעָ֔םha.'Amthe peopleH5971 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhoH834 →
לֹֽא־lo'-notH3808 →
הָי֖וּha.Yuthey wereH1961 →
מִבְּנֵ֥יmi.be.Neifrom [the] descendants ofH1121 →
לֵוִֽי׃le.ViLeviH3878 →

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2 Chronicles 13:9But 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 bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.2 Kings 17:32So 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.1 Kings 13:32–33for 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.”Numbers 3:10So 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.”2 Chronicles 11:14–15For 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.1 Kings 13:32for 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.”Psalms 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.2 Kings 17:29Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.2 Chronicles 11:15And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.Deuteronomy 24:15You 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 16:25At 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.1 Kings 13:24As 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.Hosea 12:11Is 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.Ezekiel 44:6–8Tell 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.2 Kings 23:19Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.Hosea 8:14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.Judges 17:12Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.Judges 17:5Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

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