Verse 33

A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 11:15 : 15 Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.
  • 2 Chr 13:9 : 9 But you banished the LORD’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods!
  • Ps 78:34 : 34 When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.
  • Jer 18:4 : 4 Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.
  • Amos 6:11 : 11 Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
  • Exod 28:41 : 41 “You are to clothe them– your brother Aaron and his sons with him– and anoint them and ordain them and set them apart as holy, so that they may minister as my priests.
  • Num 1:51 : 51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, the Levites must set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it must be killed.
  • Num 3:10 : 10 So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood, but the unauthorized person who comes near must be put to death.”
  • Num 17:5 : 5 And the staff of the man whom I choose will blossom; so I will rid myself of the complaints of the Israelites, which they murmur against you.”
  • Num 17:12-13 : 12 The Israelites said to Moses,“We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish! 13 (17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?”
  • Judg 17:12 : 12 Micah paid the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.
  • 1 Kgs 12:31-33 : 31 He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests common people who were not Levites. 32 Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival celebrated in Judah. On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made. 33 A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel On the fifteenth day of the eighth month(a date he had arbitrarily chosen) Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.