1 Kings 12:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ He also made houses on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.

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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

Then as he went away, a lion met him on the road and killed him. His body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

2 Kings 17:28

So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should worship the Lord.

2 Kings 17:29

But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived;

2 Kings 17:32

They also worshiped 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.

2 Chronicles 13:9

Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to be consecrated with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.

Ezekiel 16:25

at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself to every passer-by and multiplying your prostitution.

Hosea 12:11

In Gilead there is iniquity; they shall surely come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, so their altars shall be like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.

Amos 7:10

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the very center of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

Numbers 3:10

But you shall enroll Aaron and his descendants; it is they who shall attend to the priesthood, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

Deuteronomy 24:15

You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.