Ezekiel 37:16 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁶ Son of man, take thee a staff and write thereon, "Juda and the children of Israel who adhere to him" Then thou shalt take thee another staff and write thereon, "For Joseph the staff of Ephraim and all the children of Israel who adhere to him"

² Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them a staff; a staff for every house of patriarchal families; from all the chiefs of the respective houses of patriarchal families twelve staves; and write every one's name on his staff; ³ and on the staff of Levi write Aaron's name; for he is one staff. The chief of the house of the head family in every tribe shall give;

¹⁶ therefore when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them, they answered the king and said, What portion have we in David? We indeed have no inheritance in the son of Jessai. To thy tents, Israel! Now David, feed thy own house. So Israel departed to their habitations. ¹⁷ [Omitted] ¹⁸ And when the king sent out Adoniram, who was over the tribute, they stoned him with stones, so that he died. Upon which Roboam hasted to mount his chariot and flee to Jerusalem. ¹⁹ So Israel renounced all allegiance to the house of David to this day. ²⁰ Now when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned from Egypt they had sent and invited him to the assembly, and they made him king over Israel, so that there was none who followed the house of David but only the tribes of Juda and Benjamin.

¹⁷ and when some men of Israel and they who dwelt in the cities of Juda, had made Roboam king over them,

¹⁹ and Israel revolted from the house of David to this day.

¹¹ And when he had strengthened them with walls, he appointed governors in them, with stores of provisions, oil and wine. ¹² And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them very strong. Now there were with him Juda and Benjamin. ¹³ And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel, resorted to him, from all their borders. 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, ¹⁵ and made for himself priests of the high places for the idols, and the vanities and the calves which Jeroboam made. ¹⁶ He expelled also from among the tribes of Israel them who set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers, ¹⁷ and strengthened the kingdom of Juda. So he strengthened Roboam son of Solomon three years, because for three years he walked in the ways of David and Solomon.

⁹ he assembled Juda and the strangers who worshipped with him from Ephraim, and from Manasses, and from Symeon, for many of the Israelites had joined him when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

¹¹ But the men of Aser, and some of Manasses and Zabulon were humbled, and came to Jerusalem, and to Juda. ¹² Now to these the hand of the Lord had given one heart to come and do what the king and the chiefs had commanded by a word of the Lord. ¹³ So there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the festival of unleavened bread in the second month; a very great congregation. ¹⁴ And after they had arisen, and demolished the altars which were in Jerusalem, and torn to pieces all on which they had burned incense to vanities, and thrown them into the brook Kedron, ¹⁵ they killed the paschal lamb on the fourteenth of the second month. And as the priests and the Levites were humbled, and had purified themselves, they offered whole burnt offerings in the house of the Lord, ¹⁶ and stood in their station according to the disposition made of them by the command of Moses, the man of God; and the priests received the blood from the hands of the Levites. ¹⁷ Because there were many of the congregation who were not purified, therefore the Levites had it in charge to kill the paschal lamb, for every one who had not been able to purify himself to the Lord. ¹⁸ And because most of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and Issachar, and Zabulon, had not purified themselves, but ate the passover contrary to the scripture, therefore Ezekias prayed for them on this account and said, The good Lord make atonement for every heart