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2 Chronicles 11:15–17

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And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers.
So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
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From verse 15

  1. 1 Kings 12:28Rank 1 from verse 15
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    28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

  2. 1 Kings 12:31Rank 2 from verse 15
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    31And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

  3. 1 Kings 13:33Rank 3 from verse 15
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    33¶ After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

  4. Deuteronomy 32:17Rank 4 from verse 15
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    17They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

  5. 1 Kings 14:9Rank 5 from verse 15
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    9But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

  6. 1 Timothy 4:1Rank 6 from verse 15
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    1NOW the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

  7. Exodus 32:31Rank 7 from verse 15
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    31And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

  8. Exodus 32:4–8Rank 8 from verse 15
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    4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

    5And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.

    6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

    7¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

    8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

  9. Hosea 13:2Rank 9 from verse 15
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    2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  10. Hosea 8:5–6Rank 10 from verse 15
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    5¶ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

    6For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  11. Psalms 106:19–20Rank 11 from verse 15
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    19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

    20Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

  12. Revelation 16:14Rank 12 from verse 15
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    14For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

  13. 1 Corinthians 10:20–21Rank 13 from verse 15
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    20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

    21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.

From verse 16

  1. 2 Chronicles 15:9Rank 1 from verse 16
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    9And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

  2. 1 Chronicles 16:29Rank 2 from verse 16
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    29Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

  3. 1 Chronicles 22:1Rank 3 from verse 16
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    1THEN David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

  4. 1 Samuel 7:3–4Rank 4 from verse 16
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    3¶ And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

    4Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.

  5. 2 Chronicles 30:11Rank 5 from verse 16
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    11Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

  6. 2 Chronicles 30:18–19Rank 6 from verse 16
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    18For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord pardon every one

    19That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  7. Acts 11:23Rank 7 from verse 16
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    23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

  8. Daniel 6:14Rank 8 from verse 16
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    14Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

  9. Deuteronomy 12:11Rank 9 from verse 16
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    11Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:

  10. Deuteronomy 12:13–14Rank 10 from verse 16
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    13Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

    14But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

  11. Deuteronomy 12:5–6Rank 11 from verse 16
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    5But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

    6And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

  12. Deuteronomy 32:46Rank 12 from verse 16
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    46And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

  13. Exodus 9:21Rank 13 from verse 16
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    21And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.

  14. Haggai 1:5Rank 14 from verse 16
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    5Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

  15. Hosea 4:8Rank 15 from verse 16
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    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

  16. Job 34:14Rank 16 from verse 16
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    14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

  17. Joshua 22:19Rank 17 from verse 16
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    19Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the Lord, wherein the Lord’s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the Lord, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God.

  18. Psalms 108:1Rank 18 from verse 16
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    1O GOD, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

  19. Psalms 62:10Rank 19 from verse 16
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    10Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

  20. Psalms 84:5–7Rank 20 from verse 16
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    5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

    6Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

    7They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

  21. 1 Chronicles 22:19Rank 21 from verse 16
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    19Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the Lord.

From verse 17

  1. 2 Chronicles 12:1Rank 1 from verse 17
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    1AND it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

  2. 2 Chronicles 1:1–12Rank 2 from verse 17
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    1AND Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

    2Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

    3So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness.

    4But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

    5Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

    6And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

    7¶ In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

    8And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

    9Now, O Lord God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

    10Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

    11And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

    12Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.

  3. 2 Chronicles 7:17–19Rank 3 from verse 17
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    17And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

    18Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

    19But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

  4. 2 Chronicles 8:13–16Rank 4 from verse 17
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    13Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

    14¶ And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

    15And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

    16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was perfected.

  5. Hosea 6:4Rank 5 from verse 17
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    4¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

  6. Matthew 13:20–21Rank 6 from verse 17
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    20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

    21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

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2 Chronicles 11:15

COMBINED MEANING

ordained

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Sense 1: Appointed or set apart to an office, work, purpose, or end. Sense 2: Established, decreed, ordered, prescribed, prepared, arranged, or settled.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

priests

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Persons set apart to religious service, sanctuary duty, sacrifice, intercession, teaching, or representation before a deity.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

high

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Sense 1: Elevated or far above; great in height, stature, or position; aloft. Sense 2: Elevated or chief in rank, office, power, authority, honor, excellence, or importance. Sense 3: Great in degree, intensity, fullness, or advancement; loud or strongly expressed. Sense 4: Proud, haughty, or self-exalting. Sense 5: Difficult, lofty, or beyond reach or understanding. Sense 6: In high way, a principal or public road; in high place, an elevated site, often used for worship or sacrifice.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

places

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1. Physical locations or rooms. 2. Positions or offices. 3. Occasions, circumstances, or passages.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

2 Chronicles 11:16

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after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

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tribes

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Bodies of people descended from common ancestors, especially the divisions of Israel.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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set

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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hearts

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The inward lives of persons: their thoughts, understanding, conscience, affections, desires, purposes, will, courage, or disposition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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sacrifice

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Sense 1: An offering presented to God or to a false god, or the thing so offered. Sense 2: To present, slay, or consume something as such an offering.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

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2 Chronicles 11:17

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strengthened

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of strengthen, meaning to make stronger, confirm, encourage, fortify, or increase in power.

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kingdom

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The rule, royal authority, government, realm, territory, subjects, or dominion of a king.

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COMBINED MEANING

made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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son

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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.

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strong

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Having great power, might, firmness, courage, capacity, influence, defence, health, intensity, or ability to act, endure, resist, overcome, or support.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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strenghtened

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of strengthen, meaning to make stronger, confirm, encourage, fortify, or increase in power.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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11:13¶ And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.

11:14For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the Lord:

11:15And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

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11:16And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers.

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11:17So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

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