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2 Chronicles 11:13

The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel went over to him from within their borders.

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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 put shields and spears in all the cities and made them very strong. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

14For the Levites left their pasturelands and property in order to come to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had driven them away, so that they could no longer perform priestly duties for Yahweh.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:19Pay attention to yourself so that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on your land.

1 Kings 12:17But as for the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam became king over them.

2 Kings 4:42A man came from Baal Shalishah to the man of God and brought twenty loaves of barley bread in his sack from the new harvest, and fresh ears of grain. He said, “Give this to the people so they can eat.”

2 Chronicles 23:2They went about in Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, as well as the heads of the ancestral houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 23:38But if you say, 'The burden of Yahweh', this is what Yahweh says: 1 'Because you have said these words, 'The burden of Yahweh,' when I sent to you, saying, 'You will not say, “The burden of Yahweh,”' 1

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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