2 Chronicles 11:13

Moreover, the priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel stood with Rehoboam.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.

In Context

12He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

14For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:19and be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

1 Kings 12:17but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.

2 Kings 4:42Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.

2 Chronicles 23:2So they went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah and the heads of the families of Israel. And when they came to Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 23:38But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 11:2-13

Rehoboam Forbidden to Make War. ( b. c. 975.) 1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. 2 But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, 4 Thus saith the Lord , Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your… Read the whole commentary →

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