1 Kings 12:31 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

³¹ And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Jeroboam also made houses on high places and made priests of people who were not Levites.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.

Common English Bible

³¹ Jeroboam made shrines on the high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, but none were Levites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ And he made shrines on the high places, and he made priests out of the lowest people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

1 Kings 12:31 Cross References

1 Kings 13:24

And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcass.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:28

Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth–el, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

2 Kings 17:29

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

2 Kings 17:32

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.

2 Chronicles 13:9

Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

Ezekiel 16:25

Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

Hosea 12:11

Is there iniquity in Gil´e-ad? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

Amos 7:10

Then Amazi´ah the priest of Beth–el sent to Jerobo´am king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

Numbers 3:10

And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 24:15

at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.