2 Chronicles 11:12-14

Complete Jewish Bible

¹² In every city he put shields and spears, making them very strong. Y’hudah and Binyamin stuck with him.

¹³ The cohanim and L’vi’im from wherever they lived throughout all Isra’el made themselves available to Rechav‘am. ¹⁴ The L’vi’im left their pasture lands and property and came to Y’hudah and Yerushalayim; since Yarov‘am and his sons had thrown them out, not allowing them to function as cohanim for Adonai,