2 Chronicles 11:13-17

Evangelical Heritage Version

Faithful Priests and People Come to Rehoboam

¹³ The priests and Levites who were living in Israel left the land allotted to them and took their stand with Rehoboam. ¹⁴ The Levites left their pasturelands and their holdings. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had removed them from their ministry as priests of the Lord.

¹⁵ Jeroboam had appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goats and calves he had made.

¹⁶ From all the tribes of Israel, those people who set their hearts on seeking the Lord, the God of Israel, followed the priests and Levites and came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord, the God of their fathers. ¹⁷ They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam son of Solomon secure for three years, because for those three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.