He also made houses on high places, and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.
2 Kings 17:32 - Revised Standard Version They also feared the Lord, and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they feared the Lord, yet appointed from among themselves, whether high or low, priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. American Standard Version (1901) So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. Common English Bible They also worshipped the LORD, but they appointed priests for the shrines from their whole population. These priests worked in the houses at the shrines. Catholic Public Domain Version But nevertheless, they worshipped the Lord. Then they made for themselves, from the least of the people, priests of the high places. And they placed them in the shrines of the high places. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to themselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and they placed them in the temples of the high places. |
He also made houses on high places, and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.
He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense.
And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people; any who would, he consecrated to be priests of the high places.
And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
But every nation still made gods of its own, and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they dwelt;
So they feared the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
So these nations feared the Lord, and also served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
And all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger, Josiah removed; he did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”
those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens; those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom;