2 Chronicles 13:5-10

English Standard Version

⁵ Ought you not to know that the Lord God of Israel ^(A)gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by ^(B)a covenant of salt? ⁶ Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up ^(C)and rebelled against his lord, ⁷ and certain ^(D)worthless scoundrels^[a] gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was ^(E)young and irresolute^[b] and could not withstand them.

⁸ “And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you ^(F)the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods. ^9 (G)Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes ^(H)for ordination^[c] with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are ^(I)not gods. ¹⁰ But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the Lord who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.