2 Chronicles 13:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? So whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of idols that are not gods.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Have ye not driven out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples 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.

Common English Bible

⁹ But you’ve banished the LORD’s priests, Aaron’s sons, along with the Levites, so that you could appoint your own priests as other countries do. Now anyone who shows up with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of these phony gods!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, as well as the Levites. And like all the peoples of the lands, you have made priests for yourselves. Anyone who is willing to come and perform the ritual by his hand, with a bull from the herd and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are not gods.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites: and you have made you priests, like all the nations of the earth. Whosoever cometh and consecrateth his hand with a bullock of the herd, and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are no gods.

2 Chronicles 13:9 Cross References

1 Kings 13:33

Even after this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way but made priests for the high places again from among all the people; any who wanted to be priests he consecrated for the high places.

2 Kings 19:18

and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.

1 Chronicles 29:5

and for all the work to be done by artisans, gold for the things of gold and silver for the things of silver. Who then will offer willingly, consecrating themselves today to the Lord?”

2 Chronicles 13:10

But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not abandoned him. We have priests ministering to the Lord who are descendants of Aaron and Levites for their service.

2 Chronicles 29:31

Then Hezekiah said, “You have now consecrated yourselves to the Lord; come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the Lord.” The assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.

Exodus 29:1

“Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them to serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

Exodus 29:29

“The sacred vestments of Aaron shall be passed on to his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them.

Exodus 29:35

“Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, just as I have commanded you; through seven days you shall ordain them.

Exodus 32:29

Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of a son or a brother, and so have brought a blessing on yourselves this day.”

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for something that does not profit.

Jeremiah 5:7

How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of prostitutes.

Hosea 8:6

For it is from Israel, an artisan made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.

Leviticus 16:32

The priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement, wearing the linen vestments, the holy vestments.

Leviticus 8:2

“Take Aaron and his sons with him, the vestments, the anointing oil, the bull for the purification offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;

Acts 19:26

You also see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost the whole of Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared.