1 Kings 12:31

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And he made an house of hill aulters, and made priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.

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  • 1 Kgs 13:32-33 : 32 For the saying which he cryed at the word of the Lorde against the aulter in Bethel, and against all the houses of hie places which are in the cities of Samarie, shall come to passe. 33 Howbeit, for all that Ieroboam conuerted not from his wicked way: but turned backe, and made of the lowest of the people priestes of the hie places: And who so pleased him, he filled his hand, and he became priest of the hie places.
  • 2 Kgs 17:32 : 32 And so they feared the Lorde, & made them priestes of the basist of them, which sacrifised for them in the houses of the hygh places.
  • 2 Chr 13:9 : 9 And haue ye not cast out the priestes of the Lorde the sonnes of Aaron and the Leuites, and haue made you priestes after the maner of the nations of other landes? so that whosoeuer commeth & consecrateth his hande with a young oxe and seuen rammes, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
  • 2 Chr 11:14-15 : 14 For the Leuites left their suburbes, and their possession, and came to Iuda and Hierusalem: For Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them out from ministring vnto the Lorde. 15 And he ordayned him priestes for the high places, for the deuils, and for the calues which he had made.
  • Num 3:10 : 10 And thou shalt appoynt Aaron and his sonnes to wayte on their priestes office: and the straunger that commeth nye, shalbe slayne.
  • Deut 24:15 : 15 But shalt geue him his hyre the same day, & let not the sunne go downe theron, for he is needie, and therwith sustayneth his life: lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde, and it be sinne vnto thee.
  • 1 Kgs 13:24 : 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slue him: and his carkasse was cast in the way, & the asse stoode thereby, and the lion stoode by the corse also.
  • Ezek 16:25 : 25 Thou hast buylt thyne hye plate at euery head of the way, thou hast made thy beautie to be abhorred, thou hast opened thy feete to euery one that came by, and multiplied thy whoredome.
  • Ezek 44:6-8 : 6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious euen to the house of Israel, thus saith the Lorde God: O house of Israel, ye haue inough of al your abhominations. 7 Seeing ye haue brought into my sanctuary straungers hauing vncircumcized heartes and vncircumcized fleshe, to be in my sanctuarie to pollute my house, when ye offer my bread, fat, and blood, and they haue broken my couenaunt because of all your abhominations: 8 And ye haue not kept the ordinaunces of my holy thinges, and ye haue set kepers to kepe my sanctuarie for you.
  • Hos 12:11 : 11 In Galaad is iniquitie, they are fallen to vanitie: at Gilgal they haue sacrificed oxen, & their aulters are as heapes in the furrowes of the fielde.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 11:13-16
    4 verses
    84%

    13And the priestes and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted to him out of all their coastes.

    14For the Leuites left their suburbes, and their possession, and came to Iuda and Hierusalem: For Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them out from ministring vnto the Lorde.

    15And he ordayned him priestes for the high places, for the deuils, and for the calues which he had made.

    16And after the Leuites, there went out all the tribes of Israel, such as submitted their heartes to seeke the Lord God of Israel, and came to Hierusalem to offer vnto the Lorde God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32-34
    3 verses
    84%

    32For the saying which he cryed at the word of the Lorde against the aulter in Bethel, and against all the houses of hie places which are in the cities of Samarie, shall come to passe.

    33Howbeit, for all that Ieroboam conuerted not from his wicked way: but turned backe, and made of the lowest of the people priestes of the hie places: And who so pleased him, he filled his hand, and he became priest of the hie places.

    34And this thing turned to sinne vnto the house of Ieroboam, euen to destroy him, and to bring him to naught from of the face of the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 12:32-33
    2 verses
    80%

    32And Ieroboam made a feast the fyfteene day of the eyght moneth, lyke vnto the feast that is in Iuda, and offered on the aulter: And so did he in Bethel, to offer vnto the calues that he had made: And he put in Bethel the priestes of the hill aulters which he had made.

    33And he went vp to the aulter to burne incense whiche he had made in Bethel the fyfteene day of the eyght moneth, euen in the moneth whiche he had imagined of his owne hearte: and made a solemne feast vnto the children of Israel, and offered vpon the aulter, and burnt incense.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    79%

    32And so they feared the Lorde, & made them priestes of the basist of them, which sacrifised for them in the houses of the hygh places.

  • 2 Chr 13:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8And now ye say, that ye be able to preuaile against the kingdome of the Lord, which is in the hande of the sonnes of Dauid, and ye be a great multitude, and haue the golden calues which Ieroboam made you for gods.

    9And haue ye not cast out the priestes of the Lorde the sonnes of Aaron and the Leuites, and haue made you priestes after the maner of the nations of other landes? so that whosoeuer commeth & consecrateth his hande with a young oxe and seuen rammes, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:26-30
    5 verses
    76%

    26And Ieroboam thought in his heart: nowe shall the kingdome returne to the house of Dauid.

    27For if this people go vp and do sacrifice in the house of the Lorde at Hierusalem, then shall the heart of this people turne againe vnto their lorde Rehoboam king of Iuda, and so shal they kill me, and go againe to Rehoboam king of Iuda.

    28Wherupon the king toke counsel, and made two calues of golde, and sayd vnto them, It is muche for you to go vp to Hierusalem: Behold O Israel, these are thy goddes, which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt.

    29And he set the one in Bethel, and the other set he in Dan.

    30And this thing turned to sinne: for the people went (because of the one) as farre as Dan.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
    74%

    5And he buylded aulters for all the hoast of heauen, in the two courtes of ye house of the Lorde.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3For he went and buylt vp the hygh places whiche Hezekia his father had destroyed, and he reared vp aulters for Baal, and made idol groues as dyd Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the hoast of heauen, and serued them.

    4And he buylt aulters in the house of the Lord, of which the Lorde sayde: in Hierusalem will I put my name.

    5And he buylt aulters for all the hoast of heauen, euen in two courtes of the house of the Lorde.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    73%

    29Howebeit euery nation made them gods of their owne, and put them in the houses of the hygh places whiche the Samaritans had made, euery nation in their cities wherin they dwelt.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21
    73%

    21For he cut of Israel from the house of Dauid, and made them a king, euen Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat: And Ieroboam drewe Israel away that they shoulde not folowe the Lorde, and made them sinne a great sinne.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    73%

    3But the high places were not taken away: for the people offred and burnt incense yet vpon the high places.

  • Judg 17:5
    72%

    5And the man Micah had an house of goddes, and made an Ephod and Theraphim, and consecrated one of his sonnes, which became his prieste.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    72%

    3For he went to, and buylt the high places whiche Hezekia his father had broken downe: And he reared vp aulters for Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the hoast of heauen, and serued them.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    72%

    11Moreouer, he made high places in the mountaynes of Iuda, & caused the inhabiters of Hierusalem to commit fornication, and prouoked Iuda to idolatrie.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    72%

    7And he put the carued image and an idol whiche he had made, in the house of God: Of which house, God had sayd to Dauid and to Solomon his sonne, In this house and in Hierusalem whiche I haue chosen afore all the tribes of Israel will I put my name for euer.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    72%

    2Onely the people sacrificed in hygh places, because there was no house built vnto the name of the Lorde vntill those dayes.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    72%

    15Moreouer, the aulter that was at Bethel, the high places made by Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel sinne, both the aulter and also the high places he brake downe, and burnt the high places, and stampt it to powder, and burnt the idol groue.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    71%

    25And in all the cities of Iuda he made high places to burne incense vnto other gods, and angred the Lorde God of his fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    71%

    32And he reared vp an aulter for Baal in the temple of Baal which he had builded in Schomron:

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    71%

    35But the high places were not put away, for the people offered and burnt incense still in the high places: he built the higher doore of the house of the Lorde.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    70%

    7And he put an image of a groue that he had made euen in the temple, of which the Lord had sayd to Dauid and Solomon his sonne: in this house and in Hierusalem which I haue chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for euer.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    70%

    4Saue that the high places were not put a way: For the people offered and burnt incense still on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11And there they burnt incense in all the hygh places, as did the heathen whom the Lord caryed away before them, and wrought wicked thinges to anger the Lorde withall:

    12For they serued most vile idols, wherof the Lorde had sayd vnto them: Ye shall do no such thing.

  • 2 Kgs 11:18
    70%

    18And all the people of the lande went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it, his aulters also, and his images brake they downe lustylie, and slue Mathan the priest of Baal before the aulters: And the priest set watch ouer the house of the Lorde.

  • Judg 18:31
    70%

    31And they set them vp the carued image which Micah made, all the while that the house of God was in Silo.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    70%

    9Neuerthelesse, the priestes of the high places came not vp to the aulter of the Lorde in Hierusalem, saue onely they did eate of the sweete bread among their brethren.

  • 2 Chr 31:2
    70%

    2And Hezekia appoynted sundry companies of the priestes and Leuites after the diuersitie of their ministrations, euery man according to his office both priestes and Leuites, for the burnt offering and peace offringes, to minister and to geue thankes and praise in the gates of the hoast of the Lorde.

  • 1 Kgs 12:15
    70%

    15And the king hearkened not vnto the people: for it was the ordinaunce of God, that he might perfourme his saying, whiche the Lord spake by Ahia the Silonite vnto Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7
    69%

    7For then dyd Solomon buylde an hye place for Chamos the abhomination of Moabim the hill that is before Hierusalem, & vnto Moloch the abhomination of the children of Ammon.

  • Judg 17:12
    69%

    12And Micah consecrated the Leuite, & the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    69%

    34And the priestes were to fewe to flay al the burnt offringes: but their brethren the Leuites did helpe them, till they had ended the worke, & vntil the priestes were sanctified: For the Leuites were purer hearted to be sanctified, then the priestes.

  • 1 Kgs 13:1
    69%

    1And behold, ther came a man of God out of Iuda by the worde of the lord, vnto Bethel: and Ieroboam stoode by the aulter to put incense.

  • 1 Kgs 14:7
    69%

    7Go, tell Ieroboam, thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel: It repenteth me forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince ouer my people Israel,

  • 1 Kgs 12:20
    69%

    20And when al Israel heard that Ieroboam was come againe, they sent, and called him vnto the multitude, and made him king ouer al Israel: and there was no tribe that folowed the house of Dauid, but Iuda onely.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    69%

    19And all the houses of the high places in the cities of Samaria, which the king of Israel had made to anger the Lorde withal those Iosia put out of the way, & did to them according to all the actes that he had done in Bethel.

  • 1 Sam 2:28
    69%

    28And I chose him out of al the tribes of Israel to be my priest, for to offer vppon mine aulter, and to burne incense, and to weare an Ephod before me: and I gaue vnto the house of thy father, all the offerynges made by fire of the chyldren of Israel.