2 Chronicles 11:13
in 2 Chronicles 11Moreover, the priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel stood with Rehoboam.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.
KJV
And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 11
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The priests and Levites, refusing to take part in the idolatrous ceremonies, were ejected from their living [2Ch 11:13, 14]. Along with them a large body of the people who faithfully adhered to the instituted worship of God, offended and shocked by the impious innovations, departed from the kingdom.
This site's exposition
the priests and Levites from all their districts
on 2 Chronicles 11:13-14
The priests and Levites “from all their districts throughout Israel” stand with Rehoboam. Verse 14 gives the reason: “because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD”. Kings records Jeroboam's priests at 1 Kings 12:31, and Chronicles alone tells of the Levites' move south.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Thither they came because it was their business to attend at the times appointed. (1.) It was a mercy to them that they had a place of refuge to flee to, and that when Jeroboam cast them off there were those so near that would entertain them, and bid them welcome, and they were not forced into the lands of the heathen.
And the priests and the Levites, that were in all Israel,.... In the ten tribes, in the cities assigned to them therein: resorted to him out of all their coasts; as to their rightful sovereign, and chiefly for the sake of the service of the sanctuary at Jerusalem.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
For the Levites had abandoned their open land that was in the entire land of the ten tribes.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַכֹּהֲנִים֙ | vehakohanim | and the priests | H3548 → | 750 times |
| וְהַלְוִיִּ֔ם | vehalviyim | and the Levites | H3881 → | 291 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֖ר | ʾasher | who | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בְּכָל־ | bekhol | [were] in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| הִֽתְיַצְּב֥וּ | hityatzevu | they took their stand | H3320 → | 48 times |
| עָלָ֖יו | ʾalav | at him | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| מִכָּל־ | mikol | from all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| גְּבוּלָֽם׃ | gevulam | territory their | H1366 → |
וְהַכֹּהֲנִים֙and the priests
vehakohanimH3548 →750 times
וְהַלְוִיִּ֔םand the Levites
vehalviyimH3881 →291 times
אֲשֶׁ֖רwho
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
בְּכָל־[were] in all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
הִֽתְיַצְּב֥וּthey took their stand
hityatzevuH3320 →48 times
עָלָ֖יוat him
ʾalavH5921 →5755 times
מִכָּל־from all
mikolH3605 →5413 times
גְּבוּלָֽם׃territory their
gevulamH1366 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.