Priests and Levites Move to Judah^(A)

¹³ And from all their territories the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel took their stand with him. ¹⁴ For the Levites left ^(B)their common-lands and their possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for ^(C)Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to the Lord. ^15 (D)Then he appointed for himself priests for the ^[a]high places, for ^(E)the demons, and ^(F)the calf idols which he had made. ^16 (G)And ^[b]after the Levites left, those from all the tribes of Israel, such as set their heart to seek the Lord God of Israel, ^(H)came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers. ¹⁷ So they ^(I)strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.