2 Chronicles 11:14 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁴ For the Levites left the habitations of their possession and went to Juda to Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from ministering to the Lord,

³⁰ The whole tenth of the land, both of the produce of the land, and of the fruit of the trees, is for the Lord. It is dedicated to the Lord. ³¹ And if any man chuse to redeem his tenth by purchase, he shall add to the valuation a fifth, and it shall be his. ³² Now the whole tenth of herds and flocks; even every one which in numbering shall come under the rod, that tenth shall be dedicated to the Lord. ³³ Thou shalt not change a good for a bad, nor a bad for a good; and if thou shalt actually make an exchange, that given in exchange shall also be consecrated, and shall not be redeemed. ³⁴ These are the commands which the Lord gave in charge to Moses for the children of Israel at mount Sina.

²¹ And behold I have given the Levites all the tenth in Israel, as a portion for their services. Inasmuch as they are to perform service at the tabernacle of the testimony, ²² and the children of Israel are no more to come to the tabernacle of the testimony, to bear a sin which incurreth death, ²³ but the Levites themselves are to perform the service of the tabernacle, and to bear their sins, this shall be a perpetual due for their generations, and they shall have no inheritance among the children of Israel. ²⁴ Because I have given the Levites for their portion the tithes of the children of Israel, which they set apart for the Lord, as a dedication, therefore I have said to them, they shall have no lot of inheritance among the Israelites. ²⁵ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁶ Thou shalt speak to the Levites and say to them; When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given you from them for a lot of inheritance, you shall set apart from it, as a dedication for the Lord, a tenth of the tenth; ²⁷ and these dedications of yours shall be reckoned to you as corn from the threshing floor, and as a dedication from the press. ²⁸ Thus you shall acquit yourselves of all the dedications of the Lord; of all your tenths which you receive from the children of Israel. And you shall give the dedication set apart from it for the Lord to Aaron the priest.

² Command the children of Israel; and let them give the Levites, out of the lots of their possession, cities to dwell in. They shall also give the Levites the suburbs of these cities round about. ³ The cities shall be for them to dwell in; and the suburbs thereof shall be for their cattle, even for all their beasts. ⁴ Now the suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city, outwards, two thousand cubits all around. ⁵ Thou shalt therefore measure off, outwards from the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, on the south side two thousand cubits, on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, and in the middle of this shall be your city;

²⁰ And to the communities of the Kaathites, the Levites, the rest of the Kaathites, was assigned, from the tribe of Ephraim, the city of their priests; ²¹ and they gave them Sychem, the city of refuge for the manslayer with its appurtenances, and Gazara with its fields and its suburbs, ²² and Baithoron with its suburbs, four cities; ²³ and from the tribe of Dan, Elkothaim with its suburbs, and Gethedan with its suburbs, ²⁴ and Ailon with its suburbs, and Getheremmon with its suburbs, four cities; ²⁵ and from the half of the tribe of Manasses, Tanach with its suburbs, and Jebatha with its suburbs, two cities. ²⁶ All the cities for the remaining communities of the Kaathites were ten, with their suburbs. ²⁷ And to the children of Gerson, the Levites, they gave out of the half of the tribe of Manasses, the city set apart for the manslayers, Gaulon in Basanitis with its suburbs, and Bosora with its suburbs, two cities; ²⁸ and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kison with its suburbs, and Lebba with its suburbs, ²⁹ and Remmath with its suburbs, and Fountain of letters with its suburbs, four cities; ³⁰ and out of the tribe of Aser, Basellan with its suburbs, and Dabbon with its suburbs, ³¹ and Chelkat with its suburbs, and Raab with its suburbs, four cities; ³² and out of the tribe of Nephthaleim, Kades in Galilee, the city set apart for the slayer, with its suburbs, and Nemmath with its suburbs, and Themmon with its suburbs, three cities. ³³ All the cities of the Gersonites, according to their communities, were thirteen cities. ³⁴ And to the community of the Merarites, the rest of the Levites, they gave out of the tribe of Zabulon, Maan with its suburbs, and Kades with its suburbs, ³⁵ and Sella with its suburbs, three cities; ³⁶ and on the bank of the Jordan, over against Jericho, out of the tribe of Reuben, the city of refuge for the slayer, namely, Bosor, in the wilderness, which is called Miso with its suburbs, ³⁷ and Jazer with its suburbs, and Dekmon with its suburbs, and Mapha with its suburbs, four cities; ³⁸ and from the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for the slayer, namely, Bamoth in Galaad with its suburbs, and Kamin with its suburbs, ³⁹ and Esbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs; all the cities four. ⁴⁰ All the cities for the children of Merari, according to their communities, being the remaining families of the tribe of Levi, were twelve cities with their borders. ⁴¹ All the cities of the Levites, in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel, were forty eight with the grounds appropriate to them, around these cities. ⁴² All these cities had every one a circuit of ground around it. Now when Joshua had finished dividing the land among them by their borders, the children of Israel gave Joshua a portion, by the command of the Lord. They gave him the city which he asked. They gave him Thamnasachar on mount Ephraim, and Joshua rebuilt the city, and dwelt therein. And Joshua took the stone knives with which he had circumcised the children of Israel, who were born by the way in the wilderness, and deposited them at Thamnasachar.

²⁸ Therefore the king took counsel and went and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, Rest satisfied in respect to your going up to Jerusalem. Behold these are thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ²⁹ And he placed one of them in Baithel and the other he sent to Dan. ³⁰ And this became an occasion of sinning. For the people went before the one even to Dan, and they forsook the house of the Lord, ³¹ and he built houses on high places, and made priests of any part of the people who were not of the children of Levi. ³² And Jeroboam instituted a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth clay of the month, answering to the festival in the land of Juda, and he went up to the altar which he made at Baithel to burn incense to the calves which he had made, and presented at Baithel the priests of the high places whom he had made. ³³ But when he ascended the altar, which he had made, on the fifteenth day of the eight month, at the festival which he had devised out of his own heart and made a festival for the children of Israel; when he ascended the altar to offer incense,

³³ But after this affair Jeroboam did not turn from his wickedness, but again made from any part of the people, priests of the high places. Whoever pleased, consecrated himself and became a priest of the high places.

⁶⁶ then the families of the sons of Kaath got these cities also of their borders. Out of the tribe of Ephraim ⁶⁷ they gave them of the cities of refuge, Sychem and its suburbs on mount Ephraim; and Gazer with its suburbs, ⁶⁸ and Jekman with its suburbs, and Baithoron with its suburbs, ⁶⁹ and Ailon with its suburbs, and Gethremmon with its suburbs; ⁷⁰ and out of the half tribe of Manasses, Anar with its suburbs, and Jemblaan with its suburbs for the rest of the Kaathites according to their families. ⁷¹ And to the Gersonites they gave from the families of the half tribe of Manasses Golan of Basan with its suburbs. and Aseroth with its suburbs; ⁷² and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedes with its suburbs, and Deberi with its suburbs, and Dabor with its suburbs, ⁷³ and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Ainan with its suburbs; ⁷⁴ and out of the tribe of Aser, Maasal with its suburbs, and Abdou with its suburbs, ⁷⁵ and Akak with its suburbs, and Rohob with its suburbs. ⁷⁶ And out of the tribe of Nephthaleim, Kedes in Galilee with its suburbs, and Chamoth with its suburbs, and Kariathaim with its suburbs. ⁷⁷ And to the Merarites, the remaining Levites, they gave out of the tribe of Zabulon, Remmon with its suburbs, and Thabor with its suburbs, ⁷⁸ and on the western bank of the Jordan, Jericho; and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bosor in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jasa with its suburbs, ⁷⁹ and Kadmoth with its suburbs, and Maephla with its suburbs; ⁸⁰ and out of the tribe of Gad, Rammoth Galaad with its suburbs, and Manaim with its suburbs, and Esebon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.

⁹ Have you not expelled the priests of the Lord, the children of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests of the people of every land? Whoever came to consecrate himself with a young bull from the herd, and seven rams, was made a priest to a thing which is no God.