1 Kings 12:31 Cross References - CLV

³¹ And he makes the house of high places, and makes priests of the extremities of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi;"

¹⁰ And to Aaron and his sons shall you commit this that they observe their priesthood. But any alien who comes near shall be put to death.

¹⁵ On his day you shall give him his hire, and the sun shall not set on it ( for he is humble, and to it he is lifting his soul) that he may not call against you to Yahweh, and it would become a sin on your part.

²⁴ and he goes, and a lion finds him in the way, and puts him to death, and his carcase is cast in the way, and the ass is standing near it, and the lion is standing near the carcase.

³² for the word certainly comes to pass that he called by the word of Yahweh concerning the altar which [is] Beth-El, and concerning all the houses of the high places that [are] in cities of Samaria.. ³³ After this thing Jeroboam has not turned from his evil way, and turns back, and makes of the extremities of the people priests of high places; he who is desirous he consecrates his hand, and he is of the priests of the high places.

³² And they are fearing Yahweh, and make to themselves from their extremities priests of high places, and they are acting for them in the house of the high places.

¹⁴ for the Levites have left their suburbs and their possession, and they come to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons have cast them off from acting as priests to Yahweh, ¹⁵ and he establishes to him priests for high places, and for goats, and for calves, that he made-.

⁹ `Have you not cast out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make to you priests like the peoples of the lands? every one who has come to fill his hand with a bullock, a son of the herd, and seven rams, even he has been a priest to No-elohims!"

²⁵ At every head of the way you have built your high place, And you do make your beauty abominable, And do open wide your feet to every passer by, And do multiply your whoredoms,

⁶ and have said unto the rebellious, unto the house of Israel:Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Enough to you--of all your abominations, O house of Israel." ⁷ In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations, ⁸ and you have not kept the charge of My holy things, and you set [them] for keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for you."

¹¹ Should Gilead have lawlessness, yea, they shall become futility. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; moreover, their altars are as mounds on the furrows of a field."