2 Chronicles 13:9 Cross References - ISV

⁹ Haven’t you already driven away the LORD’s priests, the descendants of Aaron and the descendants of Levi? Haven’t you established your own priests like the people of other lands?

¹ The Consecration of the Priests“This is what you are to do to them in order to consecrate them to serve me as priests: Take a young bull, two rams without blemish,

³⁵ You are to do this for Aaron and his sons, just as I’ve commanded you. You are to ordain them for seven days,

²⁹ Moses said, “You have been ordained to serve the LORD today, and you have brought a blessing on yourselves today because every man opposed his son or brother.”

² “Take Aaron, his sons with him, the clothing, the anointing oil, the bull for sin offering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread

³² The priest who has been anointed and consecrated to be priest after his father is to make the atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen clothing

¹⁷ They sacrificed to demons— not to the real God— gods whom they didn’t know, new neighbors who had recently appeared, whom your ancestors never feared.

³¹ Jeroboam built temples on the high places, and appointed his own priests from the fringe elements of the people who were not descendants of Levi.
³² Jeroboam invented a festival for the fifteenth day of the eighth month similar to the festival that takes place in Judah. He approached the altar that he had set up in Bethel and sacrificed to the calves that he had made, having stationed in Bethel the priests that he had appointed. ³³ Then, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, he went up to burn incense on the altar that he had set up in Bethel, thus beginning the festival that he had made up out of his own heart for the Israelis.

³³ Despite everything that happened, Jeroboam never did repent of his evil practices. Instead, he appointed even more people to act as priests for the high places. Anyone who wanted to be a priest was ordained to be a priest in the high places.

¹⁸ throwing their gods into the fire, since they weren’t gods but rather were the product of men’s handiwork—wood and stone. And so they destroyed them.

⁵ and for all the work to be undertaken by skilled artists, gold for what is to be made of gold, and silver for what is to be made of silver. Who then, will be dedicating the productivity of his own work to the LORD today?”

¹⁴ because the descendants of Levi left their pasture lands and their property to live in Judah and Jerusalem, since Jeroboam and his sons had excluded them from participating in priestly services to the LORD. ¹⁵ Jeroboam had appointed his own priests to serve at the high places and to serve the satyrs and calves that he had made.

¹¹ Has a nation ever changed gods when they aren’t even gods? But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.

⁷ Why should I forgive you? Your sons have forsaken me, and you have sworn by those who aren’t gods. When I gave them enough food to satisfy them, they committed adultery and marched to the prostitute’s house.

⁶ Because from Israel it was fashioned by craftsmen, it is not God; therefore Samaria’s calf will be broken in pieces.

²⁶ You also see and hear that, not only in Ephesus, but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has won over and taken away a large crowd by telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.

⁸ However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.