1 Kings 12:31

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he made a house of high places and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

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  • 1 Kgs 13:32-33 : 32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass. 33 After this, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whoever desired, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 17:32 : 32 They feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.
  • 2 Chr 13:9 : 9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.
  • 2 Chr 11:14-15 : 14 For the Levites left their suburbs and possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from executing the priest's office to the LORD. 15 And he ordained priests for the high places, for the devils, and for the calves which he made.
  • Num 3:10 : 10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall fulfill their duties in the priest's office; and the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
  • Deut 24:15 : 15 You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.
  • 1 Kgs 13:24 : 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him on the way, and killed him: and his corpse was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it, the lion also stood by the corpse.
  • Ezek 16:25 : 25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
  • Ezek 44:6-8 : 6 And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; O house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, 7 When you brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to defile it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they broke my covenant because of all your abominations. 8 And you have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have appointed others to take care of my sanctuary for yourselves.
  • Hos 12:11 : 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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  • 2 Chr 11:13-16
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    84%

    13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him from all their territories.

    14 For the Levites left their suburbs and possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them out from executing the priest's office to the LORD.

    15 And he ordained priests for the high places, for the devils, and for the calves which he made.

    16 After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32-34
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    84%

    32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

    33 After this, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whoever desired, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

    34 And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 12:32-33
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    80%

    32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

    33 So he offered upon the altar that he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    79%

    32 They feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

  • 2 Chr 13:8-9
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    8 And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and with you are golden calves, which Jeroboam made for you to be gods.

    9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:26-30
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    76%

    26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom shall return to the house of David.

    27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people shall turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.

    28 Therefore the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

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

    30 And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before one, even as far as Dan.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
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    5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-5
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    3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

    4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put my name.'

    5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
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    29 However, every nation made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they lived.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21
    73%

    21 For he ripped Israel from the house of David; they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them commit a great sin.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
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    3 However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

  • Judg 17:5
    72%

    5 And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
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    3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11 Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry and influenced Judah to sin.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    72%

    7 And he set a carved image, the idol he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and Solomon his son, 'In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.'

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    72%

    2 But the people sacrificed at high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    72%

    15 Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    71%

    25 And in every city of Judah, he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
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    32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
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    35 However, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    70%

    7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    70%

    4 Except that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still on the high places.

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

    11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

    12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 2 Kgs 11:18
    70%

    18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; they thoroughly broke his altars and images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

  • Judg 18:31
    70%

    31 And they set up for themselves Micah's carved image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
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    9 Nevertheless, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

  • 2 Chr 31:2
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    2 And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 12:15
    70%

    15 Therefore the king did not listen to the people, for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform His word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7
    69%

    7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • Judg 17:12
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    12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
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    34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore, their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was done, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • 1 Kgs 13:1
    69%

    1 And, behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

  • 1 Kgs 14:7
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    7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

  • 1 Kgs 12:20
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    20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come again, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel; there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    69%

    19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

  • 1 Sam 2:28
    69%

    28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?