31 Also he made an [a]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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:31 That is, a temple, where altars were built for idolatry.

31 Jeroboam built shrines(A) on high places and appointed priests(B) from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

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14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possessions, and came to Judah and to Jerusalem: (A)for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from ministering in the Priests’ office unto the Lord.

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14 The Levites(A) even abandoned their pasturelands and property(B) and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord

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